deturpate

发音

/ˈdɛtə(ɹ)peɪt/

词形变化

deturpated deturpates 三单 deturpates deturpating deturpating 现在分词 deturpated 过去式 deturpated 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To defile; to disfigure.

    废旧 及物

    1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery Such as that which is to be seen in Burchards, and such which are too largely described in Sanchez; which thing does not only deturpate all honest and modest conversation, but it teaches men to understand more sins then ever they knew of.

词源

First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin dēturpātus, perfect passive participle of dēturpō (“to defile”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dē- + turpō (“to make ugly, defile”), from turpis (“ugly, foul”) + -ō.

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