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DEBAUCHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does debauched mean? 

DEBAUCHED (adjective)
  The adjective DEBAUCHED has 1 sense:

1. unrestrained by convention or moralityplay

  Familiarity information: DEBAUCHED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DEBAUCHED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Unrestrained by convention or morality

Synonyms:

debauched; degenerate; degraded; dissipated; dissolute; fast; libertine; profligate; riotous

Context example:

fast women

Similar:

immoral (deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong)


 Context examples 


Here debauched a deep gorge, with precipitous, volcanic walls which no man could scale.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

They have purchased your slave judges, they have debauched your slave legislatures, and they have forced to worse horrors than chattel slavery your slave boys and girls.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I became conscious, also, as I watched this stranger, that the cluster of men around him were the roughest elements of the whole assembly: fierce, vicious-looking fellows, with cruel, debauched faces, who howled like a pack of wolves at every blow, and yelled execrations at Harrison whenever he walked across to his corner.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These rogues, whom I had picked up, debauched my other men, and they all formed a conspiracy to seize the ship, and secure me; which they did one morning, rushing into my cabin, and binding me hand and foot, threatening to throw me overboard, if I offered to stir.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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