Why this word is great
DETURPATE — [Verb] To defile, disfigure, or make foul, with a sense of rendering something inherently ugly or corrupt. From Latin dēturpātus, past participle of dēturpāre, from dē- (expressing reversal or intensification) + turpāre ("to make ugly, defile"), from turpis ("ugly, foul"). Unlike "sully" (which often tarnishes an abstract purity) or "deface" (which merely mars a surface), to deturpate is to enact a profound corruption, a violation of essence. It is the acid-scarring of a classical statue's face, the deliberate poisoning of a community well, and the lie that twists a sacred oath into a snare—the irrevocable imposition of foulness where wholeness once resided.