deprave

Verb

deprave (third-person singular simple present depraves, present participle depraving, simple past and past participle depraved)

1. (transitive) To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile

   Synonyms:

   badmouth, diss, vilify, assassinate, asperse, backbite, befoul, belibel, besmirch, besmear

2. (transitive) To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt
   • Interpreting humanity in purely zoological categories, he saw the social community as a form of natural co-operation within the species, distorted or depraved by religious prejudice, while in moral speculation he did not advance beyond the eudaemonistic schema of the Enlightenment.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in...

   Synonyms:

   blight, upset, ruin, ball up, bumble, botch, bugger up, bungle, contaminate, corrupt