debauched
[dih-bawcht]
- displaying the effect of excessive indulgence in sensual pleasure: a flabby and debauched face.
- corrupted; debased: debauched morals.
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Origin of debauched
Synonyms
See more synonyms for on Thesaurus.comdebauch
[dih-bawch]
- to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- to corrupt or pervert; sully: His honesty was debauched by the prospect of easy money.
- Archaic. to lead away, as from allegiance or duty.
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- to indulge in debauchery.
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- a period of wanton or sensual self-indulgence.
- an uninhibited spree or party; orgy: a wild debauch.
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Origin of debauch
1585–95; < French débaucher to entice away from duty, debauch, Old French desbauchier to disperse, scatter, equivalent to des- dis-1 + -bauchier, derivative of bauc, bauch beam (< Germanic; see balcony, balk; compare French ébaucher to rough-hew); hence, presumably, to hew (beams) > to split, separate > to separate from work or duty
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See more synonyms for on Thesaurus.com1. See debase.
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wanton, debased, degenerate, reprobate, fast, depraved, dissipated, deteriorated, vitiate, perverted, corrupt, defiled, degraded, abandoned, dissolute, immoral, licentious, profligate, wickedExamples from the Web for debauched
Contemporary Examples
When Druz visited Crimea before, he said, he felt disturbed by the debauched atmosphere.
Will readers ever get enough of the debauched, smoke-filled nightclubs of wartime Europe?
French Lesbian Auto-Racer Turns Nazi Spy: Francine Prose’s Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932Jessica Ferri
April 23, 2014
He and McAvoy embark on debauched trip to Germany which unfolds manically to the soundtrack of “99 Red Balloons.”
But she hits the mark more than she misses, e.g., a debauched rock star is described as looking like “a Pierrot gone bad.”
Kennan would later complain that his idea was debauched by the Truman administration.
Historical Examples
Marry, you are right; you make an engrossing topic—you and your debauched father.
The Sea-HawkRaphael Sabatini
You believe, then,” said Socrates, “that debauched persons are not free?
Therefore,” inferred Socrates, “the debauched are in a miserable slavery.
The corrupter of a Prince; the fellow who debauched and degraded him!'
Gerald FitzgeraldCharles James Lever
Wherever the Indians were most debauched, there was he in the midst of them.
History of the Moravian ChurchJ. E. Hutton
debauch
- (when tr, usually passive) to lead into a life of depraved self-indulgence
- (tr) to seduce (a woman)
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- an instance or period of extreme dissipation
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Word Origin
C16: from Old French desbaucher to corrupt, literally: to shape (timber) roughly, from bauch beam, of Germanic origin
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Word Origin and History for debauched
debauch
v.
1590s, from Middle French débaucher "entice from work or duty," from Old French desbaucher "to lead astray," supposedly literally "to trim (wood) to make a beam" (from bauch "beam," from Frankish balk or some other Germanic source akin to English balk). A sense of "shaving" something away, perhaps, but the root is also said to be a word meaning "workshop," which gets toward the notion of "to lure someone off the job;" either way the sense evolution is unclear.
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