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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
debauch is a noun and verb meaning "a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for debauch come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.