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.
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Learning not debauched by ambition. --Burke.
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A man must have got his conscience thoroughly debauched
and hardened before he can arrive to the height of sin.
--South.
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Her pride debauched her judgment and her eyes.
--Cowley.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Debauched \De*bauched"\, a.
Dissolute; dissipated. "A coarse and debauched look." --Ld.
Lytton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
debauched
adj : unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a
debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated
and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn: degenerate,
degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate,
riotous, fast]
WordNet (r) 2.0
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "debauched":
abandoned, contaminated, corrupt, corrupted, debased, decadent,
degenerate, degraded, depraved, dissipated, dissolute, fast, free,
free-living, gallant, gay, high-living, lascivious, lecherous,
lewd, libertine, libidinous, licentious, morally polluted,
perverted, polluted, profligate, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly,
rakish, reprobate, riotous, rotten, steeped in iniquity, tainted,
unbridled, vice-corrupted, vitiate, vitiated, wanton, warped,
wild
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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