deturpate

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛtə(ɹ)peɪt/

deturpate (third-person singular simple present deturpates, present participle deturpating, simple past and past participle deturpated)

1. (obsolete, transitive, usually religious) To defile; to disfigure.
   • 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.

• “deturpate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

deturpate

1. inflection of deturpare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

deturpate f pl

1. feminine plural of deturpato

dēturpāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēturpō

deturpate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of deturpar combined with te