1. To render bad, especially morally bad.

2. To debase, especially morally; corrupt.

3. To ruin utterly in character or quality.

4. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.

5. To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.

6. To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt.

1. He would stay a couple of months out of the twelve, and disgrace and insult and deprave me, and then go; so that I longed to drown myself in the pond a thousand times over; but I did not dare do it.

2. You make the public statement that calls for his trade, that debauches and depraves him, till he feels no shame in it; and in what are you better than he?

3. Prosecutions do not require scores of witnesses swearing on oath that they were in fact depraved and corrupted; it is all hypothetical

corrupt, cut up, damage, defile, deprave, desecrate, harm, hose, hump, ill-treat, impair, maltreat, manhandle, mar, mess up, mishandle, mistreat, misuse, molest, oppress, persecute, pollute, rough up, roughhouse, ruin, shake up, spoil, taint, total, victimize, violate, wax

Antonyms:cherish, coddle, defend, dote on, help, nurture, pamper, preserve, protect, respect