Hypertext Webster Gateway: "debauch"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Debauch \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
debauch
n : a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and
promiscuity [syn: {orgy}, {debauchery}, {saturnalia}, {riot},
{bacchanal}, {bacchanalia}, {drunken revelry}]
v : corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch
the young people with wine and women" [syn: {corrupt}, {pervert},
{demoralize}, {demoralise}, {debase}, {profane}, {vitiate},
{deprave}, {misdirect}]
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