DEBAUCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does debauch mean? 

• DEBAUCH (noun)
  The noun DEBAUCH has 1 sense:

1. a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

  Familiarity information: DEBAUCH used as a noun is very rare.

• DEBAUCH (verb)
  The verb DEBAUCH has 1 sense:

1. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality

  Familiarity information: DEBAUCH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEBAUCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bacchanal; bacchanalia; debauch; debauchery; drunken revelry; orgy; riot; saturnalia

Hypernyms ("debauch" is a kind of...):

revel; revelry (unrestrained merrymaking)

Derivation:

debauch (corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality)

• DEBAUCH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they debauch    ... he / she / it debauches   
Past simple: debauched   
Past participle: debauched   
-ing form: debauching   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

corrupt; debase; debauch; demoralise; demoralize; deprave; misdirect; pervert; profane; subvert; vitiate

Context example:

corrupt the morals

Hypernyms (to "debauch" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "debauch"):

carnalise; carnalize; sensualise; sensualize (debase through carnal gratification)

infect (corrupt with ideas or an ideology)

lead astray; lead off (teach immoral behavior to)

poison (spoil as if by poison)

bastardise; bastardize (change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms)

suborn (incite to commit a crime or an evil deed)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

debauch (a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity)

debauchee (a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained)

debaucher (someone who assaults others sexually)

debauchery (a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity)

 Context examples 

The very prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had proved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

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)

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)

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)

The cause of it all, as near as I could make out, was that the man, who was mate, had gone on a debauch before leaving San Francisco, and then had the poor taste to die at the beginning of the voyage and leave Wolf Larsen short-handed.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I had seen whisky drunk, such as whisky-and-soda by the men of the clubs, but never as these men drank it, from pannikins and mugs, and from the bottles—great brimming drinks, each one of which was in itself a debauch.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)