From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Debauch \De*bauch"\, verb (used with an object) & 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}, noun] 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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Debauched \De*bauched"\, adjective Dissolute; dissipated. ''A coarse and debauched look.'' --Ld. Lytton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: 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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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