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How to pronounce debauch in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia
Type of revelry, revel
Type Words
Synonyms corrupt, debase, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate
Type of modify, alter, change
Has types infect, lead astray, lead off, poison, sensualise, sensualize, suborn, bastardise, bastardize, carnalise, carnalize
Derivation debauchee, debaucher, debauchery


debauch the young people with wine and women.

Examples of debauch

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In one recorded debauch, some 20,000 victims were allegedly delivered to the god.
From the time.com
They must make love to a pig and debauch a priest in his confessional.
From the time.com
It was taxation that caused Britain's worst alcoholic debauch.
From the independent.co.uk
No one wants to hear your bellyaching after the Dionysian debauch you staged the night before.
From the sacbee.com
You go in there, debauch, and then you get out of there.
From the denverpost.com
A friend accompanying me on a minor debauch one recent evening rang up a new bar to see if it was open.
From the theatlantic.com
Consider the arc of the standard debauch.
From the theatlantic.com
This, though, is no invitation to a debauch.
From the guardian.co.uk
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • Corrupt: corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"
  • Orgy: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
  • (debauched) unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
  • An act of debauchery; An orgy; to morally corrupt someone; to seduce; to debase something
  • (debauched) corrupted; immoral; self-indulgent
  • (debauchment) The act of debauching or corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty
  • (debauched) The verb debauch, meaning to lead away from virtue or excellence, to corrupt by sensuality or intemperance, or to seduce from chastity, is of French origin (of course), and is derived from the same root as the word "balk," or horizontal support beam. ...
  • (N) -a period of wanton self-indulgence, an excessive party which includes consumption of alcohol.
  • To lead astray morally; to corrupt or deprave.