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verb
Debauch  v. t. & v. i.  (past & past part. debauched; pres. part. debauching)  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." "A man must have got his conscience thoroughly debauched and hardened before he can arrive to the height of sin." "Her pride debauched her judgment and her eyes."



adjective
Debauched  adj.  Dissolute; dissipated. "A coarse and debauched look."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Debauched" Quotes from Famous Books



... rested with me alone, for with me it might have been silenced for ever. But my servant, Michael Lambourne, witnessed the whole, and was, indeed, the means of first introducing Tressilian into Cumnor Place; and therefore I took him into my service, and retained him in it, though something of a debauched fellow, that I might have his tongue always under my own command." He then acquainted Lord Leicester how easy it was to prove the circumstance of their interview true, by evidence of Anthony Foster, ...
— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott

... farewell address, written by "the President's president," as they called Hamilton, a Vermont editor regretted that he had not retired four years before, which would have saved the country from having been so debauched by its mistress, England. The day of his departure for Mount Vernon was celebrated by a scurrilous attack in the Aurora, which a defender of his memory vindicated by an assault upon ...
— The United States of America Part I • Ediwn Erle Sparks

... were profoundly convinced of what statesmen always know, and the adroitest mere politicians never perceive—that ideas are the life of a people—that the conscience, not the pocket, is the real citadel of a nation, and that when you have debauched and demoralized that conscience by teaching that there are no natural rights, and that therefore there is no moral right or wrong in political action, you have poisoned the wells and rotted the crops in the ground. The three greatest living statesmen of England ...
— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick

... shadow of their rage, They broke the mirror of the times, the Stage; The Stage against them still maintained the war, When they debauched the ...
— The Shadow of a Crime - A Cumbrian Romance • Hall Caine

... with a man in this state was plainly absurd. I turned and issued forth, with an aching heart, into the court before the house. The miseries which a debauched husband or father inflicted upon all whom their evil destiny allies to him were pictured by my fancy, and wrung from me tears of anguish, These images, however, quickly yielded to reflections on my own state. No expedient now remained but ...
— Edgar Huntley • Charles Brockden Brown


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