debauch as a noun: - 1
as a verb: - 1
debauch
noun
1 debauch
A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity.
synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia.
Roget 954:
intemperance;
sensuality,
animalism,
carnality;
tragalism†;
pleasure;
effeminacy,
silkiness;
luxury,
luxuriousness;
lap of pleasure,
lap of luxury;
free living.
indulgence;
high living,
wild living,
inabstinence†,
self-indulgence;
voluptuousness
etc.
adj.;
epicurism,
epicureanism;
sybaritism;
drug habit.
dissipation;
licentiousness
etc.
adj.;
debauchery;
crapulence†.
revels,
revelry;
debauch,
carousal,
jollification,
drinking bout,
wassail,
saturnalia,
orgies;
excess,
too much.
Circean cup.
[drugs of abuse: list]
bhang,
hashish,
marijuana,
pot [Coll.],
hemp [Coll.],
grass [Coll.];
opium,
cocaine,
morphine,
heroin;
LSD,
lysergic acid diethylamide [Chem];
phencyclidine,
angel dust,
PCP;
barbiturates;
amphetamines,
speed [Coll.].
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Dutch: bacchanaal, orgie, tuchtloosheid, lichtzinnigheid, frivoliteit, liederlijkheid, bandeloosheid, zedeloosheid, losbandigheid, saturnaliƫn
verb
1 debauch
Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality:
— Debauch the young people with wine and women.
synonyms: corrupt, debase, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate.
Roget 961:
be impure
etc.
adj.;
intrigue;
debauch,
defile,
seduce;
prostitute;
abuse,
violate,
deflower;
commit adultery
etc.
n..
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Dutch: bederven, corrumperen
adjective
Roget 659:
unimproved
etc.
(improve)
etc.
658;
deteriorated
etc.
v.;
altered,
altered for the worse;
injured
etc.
v.;
sprung;
withering,
spoiling
etc.
v.;
on the wane,
on the decline;
tabid†;
degenerate;
marescent†;
worse;
the worse for,
all the worse for;
out of repair,
out of tune;
imperfect
etc.
651;
the worse for wear;
battered;
weathered,
weather-beaten;
stale,
passe,
shaken,
dilapidated,
frayed,
faded,
wilted,
shabby,
secondhand,
threadbare;
worn,
worn to a thread,
worn to a shadow,
worn to the stump,
worn to rags;
reduced,
reduced to a skeleton;
far gone;
tacky [U.S.].
decayed
etc.
v.;
moth-eaten,
worm-eaten;
mildewed,
rusty,
moldy,
spotted,
seedy,
time-worn,
moss-grown;
discolored;
effete,
wasted,
crumbling,
moldering,
rotten,
cankered,
blighted,
tainted;
depraved
etc.
(vicious)
945;
decrepid†,
decrepit;
broke,
busted,
broken,
out of commission,
hors de combat [Fr.],
out of action,
broken down;
done,
done for,
done up;
worn out,
used up,
finished;
beyond saving,
fit for the dust hole,
fit for the wastepaper basket,
past work
etc.
(useless)
645.
at a low ebb,
in a bad way,
on one's last legs;
undermined,
deciduous;
nodding to its fall
etc.
(destruction)
162;
tottering
etc.
(dangerous)
665;
past cure
etc.
(hopeless)
859;
fatigued
etc.
688;
retrograde
etc.
(retrogressive)
283;
deleterious
etc.
649.
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Moby thesaurus: abuse, adulterate, alloy, bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bastardize, bat, be promiscuous, bender, betray, binge, bout, brutalize, bust, canker, carousal, carouse, celebrate, celebration, chase women, cheapen, coarsen, commit adultery, compotation, confound, contaminate, corrupt, cut loose, debase, debauchery, debauchment, deceive, decoy, defile, deflower, degenerate, degrade, demoralize, denature, deprave, desecrate, despoil, devalue, dissipate, dissipation, distort, drinking bout, drunk, drunken carousal, escapade, fling, force, fornicate, free living, grovel, guzzle, hell around, high living, infect, inveigle, jag, jollify, jolly, killing pace, lark, lead astray, let go, let loose, let off steam, licentiousness, live hard, lure, make merry, make whoopee, mislead, misuse, orgy, party, pervert, philander, ploy, plunge into dissipation, poison, pollute, potation, prostitute, pub-crawl, raise hell, rake, randan, randy, rape, ravage, ravish, revel, riotous living, roister, ruin, run riot, saturnalia, seduce, see life, skylark, sleep around, soil, spree, step out, sully, swing, symposium, taint, tear, tempt, toot, twist, ulcerate, undo, violate, vitiate, vulgarize, wallow, wanton, warp, wassail, whoop it up, whore, wingding, womanize ... show more.
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