Meaning of deboshed | Babel Free

Definitions

Corrupted; in a sorry state.

Examples

“Thy lady is a scurvy lady, and a shitten lady, And, though I never heard of her, a deboshed lady.”

“Mrs Dibble was in her morning state of sobriety, which is to say that, having had a few gins, her deboshed innards were temporarily stultified, and gave her the illusion of functioning correctly when they were merely in a state of torpor.”

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