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Debauch

Definitions: Debauch

Debauch

Noun

1. A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity.

Verb

1. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "debauch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Debauch

Synonyms: bacchanal (n), bacchanalia (n), debauchery (n), drunken revelry (n), orgy (n), riot (n), saturnalia (n), corrupt (v), debase (v), demoralise (v), demoralize (v), deprave (v), misdirect (v), pervert (v), profane (v), vitiate (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Debauch

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Deterioration

Deteriorate; weaken; put back, set back; taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison, envenom, canker, corrupt, exulcerate, pollute, vitiate, inquinate; debase, embase; denaturalize, denature, leaven; deflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degrade; ulcerate; stain; (dirt); discolor; alloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper with, prejudice.

Impurity

Verb: be impure; Adjective: intrigue; debauch, defile, seduce; prostitute; abuse, violate, deflower; commit adultery;n.

Intemperance

Revels, revelry; debauch, carousal, jollification, drinking bout, wassail, saturnalia, orgies; excess, too much.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Debauch

English words defined with "debauch": ConstuprateDebauching, DeboshStuprate. (references)
Etymologies containing "debauch": DeboshQueasy. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Debauch

"Debauch" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Debauch" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)50%5157,705
Noun (singular)40%4175,879
Lexical Verb (base form)10%1339,140
                    Total100.00%10N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Debauch

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

debauch

10

debauch marc

8

debauch fair

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Debauch

Language Translations for "debauch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shturrje, prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), pirje (consumption, debauchery, potables, potation), orgji (bacchanal, bacchanalia, blast, high jinks, orgy, riot, rouse). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فسق (bawdiness, lechery, libertinism, licence, license, wantonness), ‏فسوق (depravity, fornication, immorality, perversity, profligacy, sensuality), ‏غوى (bait, be seduced, entice, enticement, seduce, snare, solicit, tempt, undo), ‏إنغماس في. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

развращавам (corrupt, defile, pervert), развратна постъпка (depravity), оргия (orgy, saturnalia), пиянски гуляй. (various references)

   

Czech

  

zkazit mravnì (deprave), svést na špatnou cestu, svést (allure, conduct, misguide, pervert, seduce), kazit (blight, butcher, corrupt, impair, Mar). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

brassen, boemelen. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

diboĉi. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

فاسدکردن (Bastardize, Canker, Corrupt, Deprave, Rot, Ruin, Spoil, Taint, Vitiate), هرزه کردن , هرزگی (Debauchery, Depravity, Incontinence, Lechery, Profligacy, Prurience, Ribaldry), عیاشی (Binge, Debauchery, Jollity, Mask, Revelry), الواطی کردن . (various references)

   

French

  

débaucher, vicier, séduire, faire la noce, corrompre (deprave), bamboucher. (various references)

   

German

  

verderben (abase, addle, adulterate, bane, banes, barbarize, become corrupted, become depraved, become ruined, become spoiled, blight, break down, bribe, contaminate, corrupt, damage, deprave, destroy, disaster, doom, go bad, go off, going off, infect, injure, kill, Mar, molder, perdition, perditions, pervert, pollute, pollution, put off, ruin, ruination, ruining, set off, smear, soil, spoil, spoiling, spoilt, spot, stain, taint, to barbarize, to debauch, to deprave, to spoil, to taint, undoing, vitiate, vitiation, wreck). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

όργιο (orgy, revelry, riot, saturnalia), ακολασία (debauchery, dissipation, lewdness, licentiousness, orgy, profligacy, profligate, promiscuity, rakishness, wantonness), διαφθείρω (corrupt, demoralize, deprave). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"שחית (corrupt, damage, debase, deprave, destroy, mangle, pervert, spoil, vitiate). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

dorbézolás (debauchery, drinking-bout, revel). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

pesta (carousal, fete, gala, orgy, party), menyesatkan (mislead). (various references)

   

Italian

  

pervertire (become perverted, pervert), gozzoviglia (carousal, gluttony, revelry), corrompere (become corrupted, bribe, buy, corrupt, deprave, pervert, pollute, putrefy, rot, seduce, taint). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

' 肉林 (sumptuous feast). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しゅちにくり" (sumptuous feast). (various references)

   

Manx

  

trullaghey (canker, deprave, desecrate, desecration, doctor, profane; denaturation, sexually corrupt), iuderaght (drinking bout). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ebauchday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

devassidão (blackguardism, debauchery, dissipation, dissolution, immortal, loosestrife, orgy, profligacy, riot, salacity, whoredom), desmoralizar (demoralize, palm, pervert, unman), depravar (deprave, pervert), deboche (debauchery, dissipation), debochar, vivernodeboche, viveremfarra, viciar (addict, spoil, taint, vitiate), seduzir (allure, attract, bait, beguile, betray, decoy, drain-ditch, drive, enchanter, entice, enticement, enticing, gullet, inveigle, lure, ruin, seduce, spell, tempt, trepan, vamp, wile), perverter moralmente, perversão moral, orgia (bacchanals, orgy, profligate, revel, revelry, riot), excesso (abundance, carry over, excess, extreme, glut, over, overage, overindulgence, overmeasure, overplus, redundance, redundancy, spilth, superfluity, surplus, surplusage), bacanal (bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bacchanals, carousal, orgy, spree). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

desfrâu (dissipation, dissoluteness, incontinence, lechery), deprava (degrade, demoralize, deprave), vicia (infect, taint, vitiate), strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blast, blight, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crack, cripple, damage, decompose, deface, deflower, demolish, deprave, derange, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, harm, hurt, impair, injure, Mar, muck, muddle, pervert, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, spoil, taint, vitiate, wreck), perverti (corrupt, pervert, sophisticate), corupe (bribe, contaminate, corrupt, deprave, empoison, infect, pervert, seduce, sophisticate, spoil, suborn, taint, vitiate), chef (bacchanalia, banquet, binge, blow out, booze, bust, carousal, damp, do, drinking bout, fancy, feast, good cheer, libation, racket, relish, revel, spread, spree, whim, wish), beţie (booze, carousal, debauchery, drink, drinking bout, drunk, drunkenness, ecstasy, fuddle, inebriation, insobriety, intoxication, libation, rouse, sheet). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

развращать (corrupt, defile, deprave, pervert, pollute), разврат (harlotry, lechery), попойка (booze-up, buster, carousal, carouse, drunk, fuddle, guzzle, hellbender, razzle-dazzle, rouse, wassail, wet night), дебош (fracas). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zavesti (institute, lead astray, mislead, seduce), razvratnik (debauchee, pervert), razvrat (debauchery, perversion, vice), pijančenje (debauchery, drinking, potation, revel). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

divertirse por completo (dally, lark, skylark), distracción (absence of mind, absentmindedness, abstraction, amusement, avocation, distraction, diversion, extension, vagueness), seducir (allure, attract, beguile, draw, entice, inveigle, lead on, lure, seduce, tempt), libertinaje (debauchery, lechery, licence, license, licentiousness, profligacy), entregarse al vicio, corrupción (corruption, debauchery, decay, graft, rottenness, taint, vitiation), corromper (canker, corrupt, infect, pollute, rot, spoil). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

utsvävning (extravagance, orgy). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zevk ve eğlenceye düşkünlük, sefahat (debauchery, dissipation, dissoluteness, libertinage, libertinism, profligacy, riotous living), kötü yola düşürmek, geçersiz kılmak (cancel, invalidate, nullify, overrule, repeal, rescind, vitiate), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), baştan çıkarmak (allure, corrupt, deprave, entice, entice away, inveigle, lead astray, misguide, pervert, seduce, tempt, wile), ayyaşlık (alcoholism, debauchery, drunkenness, insobriety), ayartmak (allure, beguile, bribe, carry away, corrupt, delude, demoralize, deprave, draw in, entice, entrap, incite, instigate, intrigue, inveigle, lead astray, lead on, lure, pervert, sacret, seduce, soap down, tamper with, tempt, wile), ahlaksızlık (corruption, debauchery, depravation, depravity, dissoluteness, immorality, indecency, moral turpitude, rascality, turpitude, uncleanliness, vice, viciousness, wantonness). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

спокушати (allure, attempt, beguile, court, decoy, deprave, entice, inveigle, lure, offend, seduce), розтлівати, розгул (orgy, racquet), розбещувати (corrupt, demoralize, deprave, filth, pervert, poison, pollute, prostitute, subvert, vitiate), розпуста (bawdry, harlotry, lechery, ordure, ribaldry, wantonness, whoredom), гульня (bat, binge, bum, carousal, fuddle, hellbender, punch, razzle, razzle-dazzle, spree, toot, whiz, whizz), виддаватися розгулу, оргія (bacchanalia, orgy), зваблювати (allure, decoy, wile), пиятика (binge, booze, carousal, carouse, crapulence, fuddle, libation, nosedive, racquet, whoopee), дебош. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự truỵ lạc, sự trác tráng (debauchery), sự sa ngã, sự sa đoạ (putrefaction), sự đ"i truỵ (perversion). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Debauch

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

constupraverunt. (various references)

Old French900-1400

desbaucher. (various references)

Middle French1400-1600

debaucher. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Debauch

Derivations

Words beginning with "debauch": debauched, debauchee, debauchees, debaucher, debaucheries, debauchers, debauchery, debauches, debauching. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Debauch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dambach, Daraich, deabuch, debac, Debach, debau, debaunch, Debbasch, Delbruck, Diesbach, dobauch, ebauch, Jenbach, Odenbach. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Debauch

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-h-u"

-1 letter: abduce, bached.

-2 letters: ached, beach, cubed, daube.

-3 letters: abed, aced, ache, bach, bade, baud, bead, beau, bedu, cade, chad, chub, cube, cued, dace, daub, duce, each, habu, hade, haed, head, hued.

-4 letters: ace, bad, bah, bed, bud, cab, cad, cub, cud, cue, dab, dah, deb, dub, due, duh, eau, ecu, edh, had, hae, hub, hue.

-5 letters: ab, ad, ae, ah, ba, be, de, ed, eh, ha, he, uh.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-e-h-u"
 

+2 letters: debauched, debauchee, debaucher, debauches.

 

+3 letters: backhauled, clubhauled, debauchees, debauchers, debauchery, debauching, humpbacked, unbleached, unbranched.

 

+4 letters: bushwhacked, hunchbacked, thumbtacked.

 

+5 letters: debaucheries, swashbuckled, turbocharged.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Debauch


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 65 62 61 75 63 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    .    -...    .-    ..-    -.-.    ....

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01100101 01100010 01100001 01110101 01100011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#101 &#98 &#97 &#117 &#99 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0065 0062 0061 0075 0063 0068

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38716867876974

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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