What does "debauch" mean?
Debauch: Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery. The first physicians by debauch were made. Dryden.
Additional senses
- 2.An act or occasion of debauchery. Silenus, from his night's debauch, Fatigued and sick. Cowley.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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