Verb

• S: (v) corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect (corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality) "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"
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• W: (adj) corruptible [Related to: corrupt] (capable of being corrupted) "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer"
• W: (adj) corruptive [Related to: corrupt] (tending to corrupt or pervert)
• W: (n) corruption [Related to: corrupt] (destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity) "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence"
• W: (adj) perversive [Related to: pervert] (tending to corrupt or pervert)
• W: (n) pervert [Related to: pervert] (a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior)
• W: (n) subversion [Related to: subvert] (destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity) "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence"
• W: (n) demoralization [Related to: demoralize] (destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy)
• W: (n) demoralisation [Related to: demoralise] (destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy)
• W: (n) debauchee [Related to: debauch] (a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained)
• W: (n) debaucher [Related to: debauch] (someone who assaults others sexually)
• W: (n) debauchery [Related to: debauch] (a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity)
• W: (n) debauch [Related to: debauch] (a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity)
• W: (n) debasement [Related to: debase] (changing to a lower state (a less respected state))
• W: (n) profanation [Related to: profane] (degradation of something worthy of respect; cheapening)
• W: (n) depravation [Related to: deprave] (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"
• W: (n) depravity [Related to: deprave] (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"
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• S: (v) depress, deject, cast down, get down, dismay, dispirit, demoralize, demoralise (lower someone's spirits; make downhearted) "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"