Synonyms for debauch
dɪˈbɔtʃde·bauch

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1. debauchnoun

   Synonyms:
   riot, revel, excess, orgies, gluttony

   Antonyms:
   meal, moderation, frugality, asceticism, abstinence, fast, maceration

2. debauchverb

   Synonyms:
   seduce, corrupt, ravish, violate, pollute, defile, vitiate

   Antonyms:
   purify, enlighten, ameliorate, elevate, make better

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1. orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelryverb

   a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

   Synonyms:
   sidesplitter, bacchanalia, rioting, howler, riot, orgy, debauchery, drunken revelry, belly laugh, thigh-slapper, bacchant, bacchanal, splurge, drunken reveller, saturnalia, public violence, scream, drunken reveler, wow, binge

2. corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirectverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   subvert, bring down, mislead, overthrow, alloy, misguide, twist, impair, misaddress, abuse, deflower, demoralise, cloud, misdirect, weaken, get down, debase, counteract, demoralize, sully, convolute, vitiate, profane, deject, lead astray, defile, desecrate, sophisticate, sabotage, load, countermine, mar, taint, overturn, stretch, invalidate, deprave, adulterate, dilute, twist around, undermine, buy, violate, grease one's palms, outrage, cast down, void, dispirit, depress, bribe, misuse, pervert, dismay, spoil, corrupt

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1. debauchverb

   Synonyms:
   corrupt, vitiate, deprave, pollute

2. debauchverb

   Synonyms:
   ravish, deflour, violate, commit a rape upon

3. debauchnoun

   Synonyms:
   potation, compotation, revels, revelry, orgies, bacchanals, saturnalia, carousal, drunken frolic, intemperate indulgence

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1. debauchnoun

   Synonyms:
   debauchery, dissipation, abandon, drunkenness saturnalia, orgies, bacchanals, lechery, rape

   Antonyms:
   temperance, continence, moderation

2. debauchverb

   Synonyms:
   vitiate, deprave, corrupt, demoralize, ravish, rape

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1. John Maynard Keynes:

   The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

2. John Maynard Keynes:

   Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency... Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose.