Debauched

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           Learning not debauched by ambition.      --Burke.
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           A man must have got his conscience thoroughly debauched
           and hardened before he can arrive to the height of sin.
                                                    --South.
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           Her pride debauched her judgment and her eyes.
                                                    --Cowley.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Debauched \De*bauched"\, a.
     Dissolute; dissipated. "A coarse and debauched look." --Ld.
     Lytton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  debauched
       adj : 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