debauch
Definitions
- An individual act of debauchery.
- An orgy.
Equivalents
Españolcorrupción
Examples
“[E]v'ry twentieth pace / Conducts the unguarded noſe to ſuch a whiff / Of ſtale debauch forth-iſſuing from the ſtyes / That law has licenſed, as makes temp'rance reel.”
“I rose by candle-light, and consumed, in the intensest application, the hours which every other individual of our party wasted in enervating slumbers, from the hesternal dissipation or debauch.”
“As I supported him towards his lodgings I could see⟳ that he was not only suffering from the effects of a recent debauch, but that a long course of intemperance had affected his nerves and his brain.”
“Greene died of a debauch; and Marlowe, the gracer of tragedians, perished in an ignominious brawl.”
“[T]he room probably was one which he actually used for opium debauches.”
“The flowers, oppressive to the eyes, blazed with not a petal stirring, in a debauch of sun.”
“[T]here were always the gay and silly sensual young girls that Yossarian had found and brought there and those that the sleepy enlisted men returning to Pianosa after their own⟳ exhausting seven-day debauch had brought there.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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