'Debauch' definitions:
Definition of 'debauch'
From: WordNet
noun
A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity [syn: orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry]
verb
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" [syn: corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect]
Definition of 'Debauch'
From: GCIDE
- Debauch \De*bauch"\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]bauche.]
- 1. Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery. [1913 Webster]
- The first physicians by debauch were made. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An act or occasion of debauchery. [1913 Webster]
- Silenus, from his night's debauch, Fatigued and sick. --Cowley. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Debauch'
From: GCIDE
- Debauch \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. [1913 Webster]
- Learning not debauched by ambition. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- A man must have got his conscience thoroughly debauched and hardened before he can arrive to the height of sin. --South. [1913 Webster]
- Her pride debauched her judgment and her eyes. --Cowley. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'debauch'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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