debauch
    n 1: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and
         promiscuity [syn: orgy, debauch, debauchery,
         saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken
         revelry]
    v 1: corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch
         the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was
         accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors
         subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals" [syn:
         corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize,
         demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate,
         deprave, misdirect]

Debauch \De*bauch"\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Debauched; p.
   pr. & vb. n. Debauching.] [F. d['e]baucher, prob.
   originally, to entice away from the workshop; pref. d['e]-
   (L. dis- or de) + OF. bauche, bauge, hut, cf. F. bauge lair
   of a wild boar; prob. from G. or Icel., cf. Icel. b[=a]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.
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         Learning not debauched by ambition.      --Burke.
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         A man must have got his conscience thoroughly debauched
         and hardened before he can arrive to the height of sin.
                                                  --South.
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         Her pride debauched her judgment and her eyes.
                                                  --Cowley.
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Debauch \De*bauch"\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]bauche.]
   1. Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness;
      lewdness; debauchery.
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            The first physicians by debauch were made. --Dryden.
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   2. An act or occasion of debauchery.
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            Silenus, from his night's debauch,
            Fatigued and sick.                    --Cowley.
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