deprave
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"I don't think you should censor books but there is this strange anomaly - it's common sense that films can deprave and corrupt, and that books can't."
From BBC • Aug. 31, 2012
It has been 14 years since China officially banned console video games, worrying the living-room boxes would dumb down or deprave the brains of Chinese youth.
From Washington Post
On the contrary it would so deprave our currency that it would bring ruin, particularly to the wage earners of the country and those on fixed salaries.
From Time Magazine Archive
The legal definition of obscenity in Great Britain is that which tends "to deprave and corrupt."
From Time Magazine Archive
This report gives me great pleasure, for to live in bad society will deprave the best manners, and to live in good will improve the worst.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)
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