What does debauch mean?
Definitions for debauch
dɪˈbɔtʃde·bauch
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word debauch.
Princeton's WordNet
orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelryverb
a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirectverb
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"
Wiktionary
debauchnoun
An act of debauchery.
debauchnoun
An orgy.
debauchverb
to morally corrupt (someone); to seduce
debauchverb
to debase (something); to lower the value of (something)
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To DEBAUCH
Etymology: desbaucher, Fr. debacchari, Latin.
This it is to counsel things that are unjust; first, to debauch a king to break his laws, and then to seek protection John Dryden, Spanish Fryar.
Here do you keep a hundred knights and squires,
Men so disorder’d, so debauch’d and bold,
That this our court, infected with their manners,
Shews like a riotous inn. William Shakespeare, King Lear.No man’s reason did ever dictate to him, that it is reasonable for him to debauch himself by intemperance and brutish sensuality. John Tillotson, Sermon 6.
Debauchnoun
A fit of intemperance; luxury; excess; lewdness.
Etymology: from the verb.
He will for some time contain himself within the bounds of sobriety; ’till within a little while he recovers his former debauch, and is well again, and then his appetite returns. Edmund Calamy.
The first physicians by debauch were made;
Excess began, and sloth sustains the trade. John Dryden, Fables.
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debauch
Debauch is a noun or verb related to excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures, especially related to alcohol or sexual activities. As a noun, it refers to a wild gathering involving excessive drinking, promiscuity, or illicit activities. As a verb, it means to corrupt or lead someone astray morally or to indulge in such excessive pleasures. It is often associated with lack of restraint, decadence, and immorality.
Webster Dictionary
Debauchnoun
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
Debauchnoun
excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery
Debauchnoun
an act or occasion of debauchery
Etymology: [F. dbaucher, prob. originally, to entice away from the workshop; pref. d- (L. dis- or de) + OF. bauche, bauge, hut, cf. F. bauge lair of a wild boar; prob. from G. or Icel., cf. Icel. blkr. See Balk, n.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Debauch
de-bawch′, v.t. to lead away from duty or allegiance: to corrupt with lewdness: to pervert.—v.i. to indulge in revelry.—n. a fit of intemperance or debauchery.—p.adj. Debauched′, corrupt: profligate.—adv. Debauch′edly.—ns. Debauch′edness; Deb′auchee, a libertine; Debauch′er; Debauch′ery, excessive intemperance: habitual lewdness; Debauch′ment. [O. Fr. desbaucher (Fr. débaucher), to corrupt—des = L. dis, and baucher, to hew—bauche or bauc, a beam, a course of stones.]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of debauch in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of debauch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of debauch in a Sentence
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency... Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose.
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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- развалям, изопачавам, развращавам, разврат, покварявамBulgarian
- diboĉiEsperanto
- turmella, turmeleminenFinnish
- débauche, débaucherFrench
- misgScottish Gaelic
- לְהַשְׁחִיתHebrew
- whakatautauheaMāori
- ontwaarden, ontaardenDutch
- destrăbălareRomanian
- дебош, унижать, разврат, развращать, разгулRussian
- مرحلے پر بھی فساقUrdu
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