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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
debauched
    adj 1: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a
           debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated
           and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn:
           debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated,
           dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous,
           fast]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Debauched \De*bauched"\, a.
   Dissolute; dissipated. "A coarse and debauched look." --Ld.
   Lytton.
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Thesaurus Results for Debauched:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abandoned, contaminated, corrupt, corrupted, debased, decadent, degenerate, degraded, depraved, dissipated, dissolute, fast, free, free-living, gallant, gay, high-living, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous, licentious, morally polluted, perverted, polluted, profligate, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, rakish, reprobate, riotous, rotten, steeped in iniquity, tainted, unbridled, vice-corrupted, vitiate, vitiated, wanton, warped, wild
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