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Debauch

Debauch Meaning & Definition
Debauch Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Debauch?

[n] a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
[v] 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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Debauch: bacchanal | bacchanalia | corrupt | debase | debauchery | demoralise | demoralize | deprave | drunken revelry | misdirect | orgy | pervert | profane | riot | saturnalia | subvert | vitiate

Related Terms | Find terms related to Debauch: abuse | adulterate | alloy | bacchanal | bacchanalia | bacchanalian | bastardize | bat | be promiscuous | bender | betray | binge | bout | brutalize | bust | canker | carousal | carouse | celebrate | celebration | chase women | cheapen | coarsen | commit adultery | compotation | confound | contaminate | corrupt | cut loose | debase | debauchery | debauchment | deceive | decoy | defile | deflower | degenerate | degrade | demoralize | denature | deprave | desecrate | despoil | devalue | dissipate | dissipation | distort | drinking bout | drunk | drunken carousal | escapade | fling | force | fornicate | free living | grovel | guzzle | hell around | high living | infect | inveigle | jag | jollify | jolly | killing pace | lark | lead astray | let go | let loose | let off steam | licentiousness | live hard | lure | make merry | make whoopee | mislead | misuse | orgy | party | pervert | philander | ploy | plunge into dissipation | poison | pollute | potation | prostitute | pub-crawl | raise hell | rake | randan | randy | rape | ravage | ravish | revel | riotous living | roister | ruin | run riot | saturnalia | seduce | see life | skylark | sleep around | soil | spree | step out | sully | swing | symposium | taint | tear | tempt | toot | twist | ulcerate | undo | violate | vitiate | vulgarize | wallow | wanton | warp | wassail | whoop it up | whore | wingding | womanize

See Also | alter | bastardise | bastardize | carnalise | carnalize | change | infect | lead astray | lead off | poison | revel | revelry | sensualise | sensualize | suborn | whore

Debauch In Webster's Dictionary

\De*bauch"\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Debauched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Debauching}.] [F. d['e]baucher, prob. originally, to entice away from the workshop; pref. d['e]- (L. dis- or de) + OF. bauche, bauge, hut, cf. F. bauge lair of a wild boar; prob. from G. or Icel., cf. Icel. b[=a]lkr. See {Balk}, n.] To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army. Learning not debauched by ambition. --Burke. A man must have got his conscience thoroughly debauched and hardened before he can arrive to the height of sin. --South. Her pride debauched her judgment and her eyes. --Cowley.
\De*bauch"\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]bauche.] 1. Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery. The first physicians by debauch were made. --Dryden. 2. An act or occasion of debauchery. Silenus, from his night's debauch, Fatigued and sick. --Cowley.

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