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Debauched definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DEBAUCH'ED, pp. Corrupted; vitiated in morals or purity of character.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. Learning not debauched by ambition. --Burke. A man must have got his conscience thoroughly debauched and hardened before he can arrive to the height of sin. --South. Her pride debauched her judgment and her eyes. --Cowley.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Debauched De*bauched", a. Dissolute; dissipated. ``A coarse and debauched look.'' --Ld. Lytton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone as debauched, you mean they behave in a way that you think is socially unacceptable, for example because they drink a lot of alcohol or have sex with a lot of people. (OLD-FASHIONED) ...a debt-ridden and debauched lifestyle. ADJ [disapproval]

Moby Thesaurus

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