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depravation 音標拼音: [d ,ɛprəv'eʃən] n. 惡化,頹廢,墮落 惡化,頹廢,墮落 depravation n 1: moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; " the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; " moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; " its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; " Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction" [ synonym: { corruption}, { degeneracy}, { depravation}, { depravity}, { putrefaction}] Depravation \ Dep` ra* va" tion\ ( d[ e^] p` r[. a]* v[= a]" sh[ u^] n), n. [ L. depravitio, from depravare: cf. F. d[' e] pravation. See { Deprave}.] 1. Detraction; depreciation. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] To stubborn critics, apt, without a theme, For depravation. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The act of depraving, or making anything bad; the act of corrupting. [ 1913 Webster] 3. The state of being depraved or degenerated; degeneracy; depravity. [ 1913 Webster] The depravation of his moral character destroyed his judgment. -- Sir G. C. Lewis. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Med.) Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion. Syn: Depravity; corruption. See { Depravity}. [ 1913 Webster] 58 Moby Thesaurus words for " depravation": abandon, abandonment, abjection, comedown, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, debasement, decadence, decadency, declension, declination, decline, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demoralization, demotion, depravedness, depravity, depreciation, derogation, descent, deterioration, devolution, dissoluteness, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drop, dying, ebb, effeteness, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall, falling- off, involution, lapse, loss of tone, moral pollution, moral turpitude, profligacy, regression, reprobacy, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, rottenness, slippage, slump, turpitude, wane
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