What is another word for depraves?

Pronunciation: [dɪpɹˈe͡ɪvz] (IPA)

Depraves is a word that means to corrupt or degrade someone's morals or character. Some synonyms for depraves include perverts, despoils, defiles, contaminates, and taints. Other synonyms that can be used in different contexts are debases, pollutes, vitiates, undermines, subverts, and ruins. All these words imply a negative influence that causes damage to someone's virtues or principles. Whether it's a person's ethics, behavior, or mental state that is affected, depraves and its synonyms express a similar idea of moral decay, corruption, or deterioration. It's crucial to recognize such words to avoid ambiguity or repetition in communication and writing.

What are the hypernyms for Depraves?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Depraves

Fine society, which, as Madame de Stael well says, depraves the frivolous mind and braces the strong one, completed the ruin of all that was manly in Cesarini's intellect.
"Ernest Maltravers, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"The education of life," says De Stael, "perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous."
"Falkland, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
For, as Aristotle says rightly, the moving of laughter is a fault in comedy, a kind of turpitude that depraves some part of a man's nature without a disease.
"The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays"
James Russell Lowell

Famous quotes with Depraves

  • An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
    Anatole France
  • How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose—easily trimmed off when once plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in slimy waters.
    Donald Grant Mitchell

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