orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry
(noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect
(verb) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
debauch (plural debauches)
An individual act of debauchery.
An orgy.
debauch (third-person singular simple present debauches, present participle debauching, simple past and past participle debauched)
(transitive) To morally corrupt (someone); to seduce.
(transitive) To debase (something); to lower the value of (something).
(intransitive) To indulge in revelry.
Source: Wiktionary
De*bauch", v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Debauched; p. pr. & vb. n. Debauching.] Etym: [F. débaucher, prob. originally, to entice away from the workshop; pref. dé- (L. dis- or de) + OF. bauche, bauge, hut, cf. F. bauge lair of a wild boar; prob. from G. or Icel., cf. Icel. balkr. See Balk, n.]
Definition: 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.
De*bauch", n. Etym: [Cf. F. débauche.]
1. Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery. The first physicians by debauch were made. Dryden.
2. An act or occasion of debauchery. Silenus, from his night's debauch, Fatigued and sick. Cowley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 May 2025
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