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English Dictionary: debauched by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
debauched
adj
  1. unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
    Synonym(s): debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Debauch \De*bauch"\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Debauched}; p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Debauching}.] [F. d[82]baucher, prob.
      originally, to entice away from the workshop; pref. d[82]-
      (L. dis- or de) + OF. bauche, bauge, hut, cf. F. bauge lair
      of a wild boar; prob. from G. or Icel., cf. Icel. b[be]lkr.
      See {Balk}, n.]
      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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Debauched \De*bauched"\, a.
      Dissolute; dissipated. [bd]A coarse and debauched look.[b8]
      --Ld. Lytton.
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