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Definition of debauch in English: debauchverb dɪˈbɔːtʃdəˈbɔtʃ [with object]1Destroy or debase the moral purity of; corrupt. 使堕落，腐蚀 he has debauched the morals of the people and endeavoured to corrupt parliament Example sentencesExamples - Why has CBS News decided it would rather debauch its brand and treat its audience like morons than simply admit their hoax?
- Is it ethical to do so, is it moral to debauch one's artistic integrity at the altar of Oscar greed?
- There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
- Politics was debauched a long time ago by television, and it's not going to go back, they're not going to change it, it's not going to get any better.
- The drain of the agricultural population to big cities, due chiefly to persuading them to abandon their natural ideals, has not only made the country less tolerable to the peasant, but debauched the town.
- The principle of ministerial responsibility has been debauched by its invocation on any conceivable occasion, to the extent that it has become almost meaningless.
- So thoroughly have they debauched its role that, were it not for the requirements of the Constitution, we could close it down tomorrow and it would make no difference.
- They have debauched the values on which the party was founded.
- Given enough drugs, money and the right opportunities, anyone can debauch themselves.
- However, soon too many dollars are chasing too few goods, debauching the currency, as John Maynard Keynes once wrote, and eventually the exchange.
- Today, the prime minister is fond of ranting about the ‘public service ethic’; but that ethic has cynically been debauched by the government.
- This administration has debauched our once independent civil service. It has also plundered our pension funds, condemning millions to meagre pickings in their retirement.
- To call what this aerial armada did a ‘war’, as distinct from unchallenged slaughter, is to debauch language.
- Lenin is said to have said the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency.
- Good luck to him: but there is no earthly reason why BBC radio should timidly do the same, and debauch one of our greatest programmes in the process.
- They have seen public life debauched by Labour on an unprecedented scale.
- If they knew the nature and worth of religion, they would not debauch it to such shameful purposes.
Synonyms corrupt, lead astray, warp, subvert, pervert, debase, degrade, make degenerate, defile, sully, pollute, poison, contaminate, infect - 1.1dated Seduce (a woman)
〈旧〉诱惑，诱骗（女子） he debauches the doctor's teenage daughter Example sentencesExamples - Apparently the Count debauches his own mother before turning paedophile.
- I don't think Derek would have debauched me right there in Lady Danbury's garden, but still… just then, I would have given everything to go back and see how far he took us before he pulled back.
- Tonight, in front of the entire Law Enforcement Workers Association of New York, I will debauch you on the main gala dinner table.
- This is why men who weary their imagination in books are less suitable for procreative functions; while those who dissipate their spirits in debauching women cannot apply themselves to serious study.
- When the Scots diarist James Boswell travelled to Corsica in 1765, he was warned he would be killed instantly if he so much as attempted ‘to debauch any of their women’.
Synonyms corrupt, deprave, warp, pervert, subvert, lead astray, make degenerate, ruin seduce, ravish, deflower, defile, sully, violate, abuse, brutalize informal take someone's cherry archaic demoralize rare vitiate
noun dɪˈbɔːtʃdəˈbɔtʃ 1A bout of excessive indulgence in sex, alcohol, or drugs. Patrick looked utterly untouched by the previous night's debauch Example sentencesExamples - A return to a standard once lost is a painful and laborious journey… As Cobden once said of the greenbacks, after the debauch comes the headache.
- However, these churches, which only attract a few thousand believers, issue explicit directives to their members not to engage in any antisocial acts, wild orgies and debauches included.
- In 1805, an extremely handsome young man, he went up to Cambridge, where he attended intermittently to his studies between extravagant debauches there and in London.
- Hypothermia can occur in younger people with heroin overdosage, from severely low blood sugars, in mountaineers, after near drowning, or in a derelict found under a bridge after an alcoholic debauch.
- I don't watch Eastenders these days, but I often catch a few minutes from the Sunday afternoon omnibus edition as I struggle to set the VCR before setting out for a night's debauch.
- Cue drum intro and hip-shaking guitar riff as I roll out of bed groggy and a bit down after the previous night's debauch, knowing that soon I'm about to feel either much better or much worse.
- As the youth is guided to his bed, he is assaulted by ‘unspeakable odors’ that seem to be ‘the fumes from a thousand bygone debauches’.
- Other people are sensibly heading to work and you feel like a lowlife reprobate skulking home after a debauch.
- To his credit, Boswell never sought to downplay his debauches.
- In spite of his refreshing sexual candor, his tours are anything but debauches.
- Yet a mere six months later, Sade is engaging in his most outrageous debauches to date.
- Others are authored by navel-gazing college students or self-declared alcoholics detailing each wretched night's debauch.
- I'd had a pint of beer, four glasses of wine, and some whisky, and that felt like a tremendous debauch.
- 1.1mass noun The practice of excessive indulgence in sex, alcohol, or drugs.
his life had been spent in debauch 他一生放浪形骸，恣情享乐。 Example sentencesExamples - Youthful irresponsibility quickly evolved into recklessness, vanity, intolerance of rivals, and drunken debauch, so, by 1827, loss of respectability was accompanied by visible physical disintegration.
- It was just that, as the author puts it: ‘For Matisse none of the standard forms of addiction or debauch could hope to match the risk and allure of painting.’
- And then some unscheduled odd event - a thrilling novel, an unexpected phone call, a bout of debauch - will push the envelope, and the gears will start to spin.
- I can't speak for other Londoners, but May Day Riots are rapidly joining the London Marathon as events that I never witness as such, yet whose aftermath always somehow impinges, usually when I'm off in search of debauch.
- The place had a reputation for hands-on debauch (and was reportedly raided by cops earlier this year), so of course we were curious.
- The roots of many carnivals around the world are in pre-Lenten debauch - a time to get down and dirty before those 40 days of strained piety.
Derivativesnoun Along with fellow debauchers Richard Burton and Oliver Reed, he made scandalous headlines in the '60s and '70s while doing enormous damage to his health. Example sentencesExamples - It is in prison that this renegade - who, if left at liberty, would almost certainly have remained yet another tedious 18th century debaucher - becomes a writer.
- Matt is then offered a job at a newspaper, moves his family to London and becomes embroiled with a career debaucher called Lawrence and a young, ambitious former colleague, Rachel.
- Assuming the ancestral title Lord Boleskine, he quickly became known locally as the ‘Beast of Boleskine’ for his heroin addiction and reputation as a debaucher of vulnerable women.
OriginLate 16th century: from French débaucher (verb) 'turn away from one's duty', from Old French desbaucher, of uncertain ultimate origin. This is from French débaucher meaning ‘turn away from one's duty’, ‘entice away from the service of one's master’. The ultimate origin is debated, but one attractive suggestion is that it comes from bauche meaning ‘place of work’, giving an original sense ‘draw away from the workshop’.
Rhymesnautch, porch, scorch, torch Definition of debauch in US English: debauchverbdəˈbôCHdəˈbɔtʃ [with object]1Destroy or debase the moral purity of; corrupt. 使堕落，腐蚀 Example sentencesExamples - So thoroughly have they debauched its role that, were it not for the requirements of the Constitution, we could close it down tomorrow and it would make no difference.
- Politics was debauched a long time ago by television, and it's not going to go back, they're not going to change it, it's not going to get any better.
- Lenin is said to have said the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency.
- Is it ethical to do so, is it moral to debauch one's artistic integrity at the altar of Oscar greed?
- They have debauched the values on which the party was founded.
- There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
- This administration has debauched our once independent civil service. It has also plundered our pension funds, condemning millions to meagre pickings in their retirement.
- However, soon too many dollars are chasing too few goods, debauching the currency, as John Maynard Keynes once wrote, and eventually the exchange.
- The drain of the agricultural population to big cities, due chiefly to persuading them to abandon their natural ideals, has not only made the country less tolerable to the peasant, but debauched the town.
- Given enough drugs, money and the right opportunities, anyone can debauch themselves.
- They have seen public life debauched by Labour on an unprecedented scale.
- Why has CBS News decided it would rather debauch its brand and treat its audience like morons than simply admit their hoax?
- To call what this aerial armada did a ‘war’, as distinct from unchallenged slaughter, is to debauch language.
- If they knew the nature and worth of religion, they would not debauch it to such shameful purposes.
- The principle of ministerial responsibility has been debauched by its invocation on any conceivable occasion, to the extent that it has become almost meaningless.
- Today, the prime minister is fond of ranting about the ‘public service ethic’; but that ethic has cynically been debauched by the government.
- Good luck to him: but there is no earthly reason why BBC radio should timidly do the same, and debauch one of our greatest programmes in the process.
Synonyms corrupt, lead astray, warp, subvert, pervert, debase, degrade, make degenerate, defile, sully, pollute, poison, contaminate, infect - 1.1dated Seduce (a woman)
〈旧〉诱惑，诱骗（女子） he debauched sixteen schoolgirls 他诱骗了16名女学生。 Example sentencesExamples - I don't think Derek would have debauched me right there in Lady Danbury's garden, but still… just then, I would have given everything to go back and see how far he took us before he pulled back.
- This is why men who weary their imagination in books are less suitable for procreative functions; while those who dissipate their spirits in debauching women cannot apply themselves to serious study.
- Apparently the Count debauches his own mother before turning paedophile.
- When the Scots diarist James Boswell travelled to Corsica in 1765, he was warned he would be killed instantly if he so much as attempted ‘to debauch any of their women’.
- Tonight, in front of the entire Law Enforcement Workers Association of New York, I will debauch you on the main gala dinner table.
Synonyms corrupt, deprave, warp, pervert, subvert, lead astray, make degenerate, ruin
noundəˈbôCHdəˈbɔtʃ 1A bout of excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures, especially eating and drinking. 恣情享乐，纵情饮宴 Example sentencesExamples - Yet a mere six months later, Sade is engaging in his most outrageous debauches to date.
- As the youth is guided to his bed, he is assaulted by ‘unspeakable odors’ that seem to be ‘the fumes from a thousand bygone debauches’.
- To his credit, Boswell never sought to downplay his debauches.
- In spite of his refreshing sexual candor, his tours are anything but debauches.
- However, these churches, which only attract a few thousand believers, issue explicit directives to their members not to engage in any antisocial acts, wild orgies and debauches included.
- In 1805, an extremely handsome young man, he went up to Cambridge, where he attended intermittently to his studies between extravagant debauches there and in London.
- I don't watch Eastenders these days, but I often catch a few minutes from the Sunday afternoon omnibus edition as I struggle to set the VCR before setting out for a night's debauch.
- Other people are sensibly heading to work and you feel like a lowlife reprobate skulking home after a debauch.
- Others are authored by navel-gazing college students or self-declared alcoholics detailing each wretched night's debauch.
- Cue drum intro and hip-shaking guitar riff as I roll out of bed groggy and a bit down after the previous night's debauch, knowing that soon I'm about to feel either much better or much worse.
- Hypothermia can occur in younger people with heroin overdosage, from severely low blood sugars, in mountaineers, after near drowning, or in a derelict found under a bridge after an alcoholic debauch.
- A return to a standard once lost is a painful and laborious journey… As Cobden once said of the greenbacks, after the debauch comes the headache.
- I'd had a pint of beer, four glasses of wine, and some whisky, and that felt like a tremendous debauch.
- 1.1 The habit or practice of indulgence in sensual pleasures; debauchery.
恣情享乐 his life had been spent in debauch 他一生放浪形骸，恣情享乐。 Example sentencesExamples - The place had a reputation for hands-on debauch (and was reportedly raided by cops earlier this year), so of course we were curious.
- Youthful irresponsibility quickly evolved into recklessness, vanity, intolerance of rivals, and drunken debauch, so, by 1827, loss of respectability was accompanied by visible physical disintegration.
- The roots of many carnivals around the world are in pre-Lenten debauch - a time to get down and dirty before those 40 days of strained piety.
- I can't speak for other Londoners, but May Day Riots are rapidly joining the London Marathon as events that I never witness as such, yet whose aftermath always somehow impinges, usually when I'm off in search of debauch.
- It was just that, as the author puts it: ‘For Matisse none of the standard forms of addiction or debauch could hope to match the risk and allure of painting.’
- And then some unscheduled odd event - a thrilling novel, an unexpected phone call, a bout of debauch - will push the envelope, and the gears will start to spin.
OriginLate 16th century: from French débaucher (verb) ‘turn away from one's duty’, from Old French desbaucher, of uncertain ultimate origin. |