depraveverb [ T ]
uk/dɪˈpreɪv/us/dɪˈpreɪv/formalto make someone depraved
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Humiliating and degrading
- abase
- be under a cloud idiom
- bring/take sb down a peg (or two) idiom
- bruise
- bruise sb's ego idiom
- compromise
- cut sb down to size idiom
- deflate
- degrade
- doghouse
- exhibition
- fall from grace idiom
- forget
- grubby
- indignity
- knock
- knock sb off their pedestal idiom 1
- knock sb off their pedestal
- lower your sights idiom
- peg
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Examples from literature
- But let nobody conclude therefore that Mr Redford is a monster, whose policy it is to deprave the theatre.
- I do not know anything that more effectually depraves and ruins their moral and religious principles.
- I speak from observation when I say that infants, whose habits have not been depraved, will not prefer hot bread of any kind.
- It is by metaphor. They alter, they force, they deprave the meaning of three or four words, and all is done.