debauching
Leading into vice
Debauching is corrupting someone morally, especially by leading them into excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures—drinking, sex, or other vices.
The word implies systematic corruption rather than a single lapse: He spent his inheritance debauching himself in European capitals.
One can also debauch abstract things like taste or standards by degrading their quality.
Distorting from proper use
- demoralizingDestroying confidence or hope
- degradingLowering in worth
- vitiatingImpairing or invalidating
- taintingPolluting or corrupting
defiling · subverting · misleading · contaminating · sullying · tarnishing · seducing · tempting
Boisterous drinking spree
- partyingSocial revelry in progress
- bacchanaliaUninhibited drunken festivity
- orgiesUninhibited group indulgence
- revelingLively, uninhibited celebration
feasting · merrymaking · bingeing · wassailing · roistering · frolicking · benders · excess
Gradual loss or scattering
- degenerationProgressive loss of function
- depravityProfound moral corruption
- degradationDecline in condition
- moral decayDecline in ethical standards
corruption · vice · wickedness · perversion · turpitude · demoralization · degeneracy · profligacy
Powerfully attractive
- luringAttracting through enticement
- temptingArousing desire or interest
- defloweringFirst sexual penetration
- ravishingStrikingly, entrancingly attractive
despoiling · violating · dishonoring · leading astray · ruination · enticement · allurement · beguiling
perverting
Distorting from proper use
- demoralizingDestroying confidence or hope
- degradingLowering in worth
- vitiatingImpairing or invalidating
tainting · defiling · subverting · misleading · contaminating · sullying · tarnishing · seducing · tempting · leading astray
carousing
Boisterous drinking spree
- partyingSocial revelry in progress
- bacchanaliaUninhibited drunken festivity
- orgiesUninhibited group indulgence
reveling · feasting · merrymaking · bingeing · wassailing · roistering · frolicking · benders · excess · dissipation
dissipation
Gradual loss or scattering
- degenerationProgressive loss of function
- depravityProfound moral corruption
- degradationDecline in condition
moral decay · corruption · vice · wickedness · perversion · turpitude · demoralization · degeneracy · profligacy · licentiousness
enticing
Powerfully attractive
- luringAttracting through enticement
- temptingArousing desire or interest
- defloweringFirst sexual penetration
ravishing · despoiling · violating · dishonoring · leading astray · ruination · enticement · allurement · beguiling
- corruptioncorruption, graft, kickbacks, bribery, bribes
debauchingreforming
Making institutional changes
purifying · redeeming · uplifting · enlightening · edifying
debauchingelevating
Lifting to higher level
honoring · ennobling · dignifying · exalting · uplifting
debauchingdisciplining
Administering corrective measures
restraining · sobering · tempering · abstaining · mortifying
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