different between deprave vs depave

English

Etymology

From Middle English depraven, from Old French depraver, from Latin d?pr?v?re (“pervert, distort, corrupt”), from de- + pravus (“crooked, distorted, perverse, wicked”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??p?e?v/
• Rhymes: -e?v

Verb

deprave (third-person singular simple present depraves, present participle depraving, simple past and past participle depraved)

1. (transitive) To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile
2. (transitive) To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt

Related terms

• depravation
• depraved
• depravedness
• depravity

Translations

Further reading

• deprave in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• deprave in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• deprave at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• pervade, repaved

Spanish

Verb

deprave

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of depravar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of depravar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of depravar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of depravar.

English

Etymology

de- +? pave

Verb

depave (third-person singular simple present depaves, present participle depaving, simple past and past participle depaved)

1. To undo the act of paving; to remove pavement (especially if it is in the form of asphalt, concrete or the like) so as to restore the land to a more natural state.
   • 1995 September, Susan Cohn, Green at Work, page 223 (Island Press):

     Environmental programs: Depaving; auto free city centers; closure of roads...

   • 1998 October, Jane Holtz Kay, Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back, page 356 (University of California Press):

     Hand out a bonus for building on wasted brownfields and depaving asphalt ones; penalize building on greenfields.

   • 2000 March–April, Laird Harrison, "Depaving Paradise", Audubon Magazine [1]:

     Then the town depaved part of a city street and closed another to cars.

   • 2002, Jan Lundberg, "Gasoline Prices and Food: in Context", Culture Change, at www.culturechange.org [2]:

     They depaved their driveway to grow food, and they are proud to own no car, TV or refrigerator

   • 2003, Richard Register, "Depaving the World", Culture Change, at www.culturechange.org [3]:

     The city has a requirement to provide off-street parking.... UA Homes had real difficulty persuading City Hall to allow us to depave about six places for a garden.

   • 2006 May 28, Paul Cooley of Santa Fe, "Miscellaneous Stuff", Carfree Family, at carfreefamily.blogspot.com [4]:

     This afternoon, we started depaving the driveway to make room for another garden bed.

   • 2018, Michelle Mulder, Going Wild: Helping Nature Thrive in Cities (Orca Book Publishers, ?ISBN), page 26:

     Rewilding can be as complex as depaving a creek or as simple as planting a few seeds. All you need is a bit of time, curiosity, keen eyes and creativity.

Synonyms

• unpave (especially if the paving is in the form of paving stones)

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