Deprave: v.tr. (word coming from the Latin depravare “to twist, to corrupt”, from pravus “bad”).
The verb "deprave" has several meanings:
1. To cause (someone) to desire evil, to take pleasure in it (corrupt, pervert).
Deprave a teenager.
Bad examples depraved him.
By extension: Aged or literary meaning: To make (a habit, a practice, a custom) morally bad.
- Quote from the French writer Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850): "You deprave the institutio...
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