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Debauch

  1. noun

    a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

    Similar: orgy, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry

  2. verb

    corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality

    debauch the young people with wine and women

    Similar: corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect

Word family

debauchment · debauched · debauching

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