• (British) IPA: /dɪˈpɹeɪvd/

1. Simple past tense and past participle of deprave

depraved

1. Perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense.

   a depraved killer

   • 2009, Neil M. Gorsuch, The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, page 57:

     The driver who speeds with reckless disregard for the consequences to others but without any intent to harm the darting child may receive jail time but is often treated far differently from the depraved killer who sets out with a purposeful plan to murder the child.

2. (archaic) Distorted out of the normal course; abnormal.
   • 1916, Veterinary Medicine, volume 11, page 759:

     There was a constant dripping of urine from the penis, a depraved appetite and meninguria. On examination, two calculi were easily felt, and I advised the owner that an operation was all that would save his animal […]

• deprave
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• German: verdorben
• Portuguese: depravado
• Spanish: depravado