"depraved" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /dɪˈpɹeɪvd/ [UK] Forms: more depraved [comparative], most depraved [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} depraved (comparative more depraved, superlative most depraved)
  1. Perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense. Translations (extremely wrong in a moral sense): neřestný (Czech), depraveret (Danish), moralsk fordærvet (Danish), verdorven (Dutch), verdorben (German), διεφθαρμένος (dieftharménos) (Greek), 堕落 (Japanese), 타락한 (tarakhan) (Korean), hīkaka (Maori), fordervet (Norwegian Bokmål), depravado (Portuguese), depravado (Spanish), depraverad (Swedish), மோசமான (mōcamāṉa) (Tamil), เลวทราม (lew thrām) (Thai), đồi trụy (Vietnamese)
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  2. (archaic) Distorted out of the normal course; abnormal. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-depraved-en-adj-wKsGWA47
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: depraved-heart murder, depraved-indifference murder, depravedly, depravedness Related terms: deprave, depravity

Verb

IPA: /dɪˈpɹeɪvd/ [UK]
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  1. simple past and past participle of deprave Tags: form-of, participle, past Form of: deprave
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