Debauch /(?)/

De·bauch

Debauch

v. t. & i.

imp. & p. p. Debauched; p. pr. & vb. n. Debauching

  1. 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.
    A man must have got his conscience thoroughly debauched and hardened before he can arrive to the height of sin.
    Her pride debauched her judgment and her eyes.
    — Cowley.

Debauch

n.
  1. Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery.
    The first physicians by debauch were made.
  2. An act or occasion of debauchery.
    Silenus, from his night's debauch, Fatigued and sick.