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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Prostitute \Pros"ti*tute\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Prostituted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prostituting}.] [L. prostitutus, p. p. of prostituere to prostitute; pro before, forth + statuere to put, place. See {Statute}.]
1. To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire. ''Do not prostitute thy daughter.'' --Lev. xix. 29.
2. To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute official powers. --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Prostitute \Pros"ti*tute\, adjective [L. prostitutus, p. p.] Openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or infamous purposes.
Made bold by want, and prostitute for bread. --Prior
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Prostitute \Pros"ti*tute\, noun [L. prostituta.]
1. A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot.
2. A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire.
No hireling she, no prostitute to praise. --Pope.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
prostitute
noun: a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money [syn: {cocotte}, {whore}, {harlot}, {bawd}, {tart}, {cyprian}, {fancy woman}, {working girl}, {sporting lady}, {lady of pleasure}, {woman of the street}]
verb: sell one's body; exchange sex for money
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
108 Moby Thesaurus words for "prostitute": B-girl, Cyprian, Paphian, abuse, adulterate, alloy, bawd, befoul, bimbo, brass, call girl, canker, catamite, cheapen, chippy, coarsen, cocotte, confound, contaminate, convert, corrupt, courtesan, cruiser, daughter of joy, debase, debauch, defalcate, defile, deflower, degenerate, degrade, demean, denature, deprave, desecrate, despoil, devalue, distort, divert, drab, embezzle, erring sister, fallen, fallen woman, fille de joie, foul, harlot, hetaera, hooker, hustler, hustling, infect, loose woman, lower, maladminister, meretricious, meretrix, misapply, misappropriate, misemploy, mishandle, mismanage, misuse, moll, nightwalker, on the, on the town, painted woman, pander, pave, peculate, pervert, pickup, pilfer, pimp, poison, pollute, poule, pro, procure, profane, prostituted, quean, ravage, ravish, scarlet, scarlet woman, sell out, stew, streetwalker, streetwalking, strumpet, taint, tart, tomato, trollop, trull, twist, ulcerate, unfortunate woman, violate, vitiate, vulgarize, warp, white slave, whore, whorish, working girl
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