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Definitions: Debauch |
DebauchNoun1. A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity. Verb1. 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: DebauchSynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Debauch |
| English words defined with "debauch": Constuprate ♦ Debauching, Debosh ♦ Stuprate. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "debauch": Debosh ♦ Queasy. (references) |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 50% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 40% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
debauch | 10 |
debauch marc | 8 |
debauch fair | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | constupraverunt. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | desbaucher. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | debaucher. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "debauch": debauched, debauchee, debauchees, debaucher, debaucheries, debauchers, debauchery, debauches, debauching. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 62 61 75 63 68 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . -... .- ..- -.-. .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01100010 01100001 01110101 01100011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e b a u c h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0062 0061 0075 0063 0068 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38716867876974 |
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