Chapter Darken to Deceitful of D by Soule's Synonymes

Debasement, n.

1. Deterioration, vitiation, adulteration, perversion.

2. Abasement, degradation, humiliation, depravation, corruption, pollution, contamination, defilement.

Debatable, a. Disputable, open to discussion.

Debate, n.

1. Disputation, controversy, discussion.

2. Altercation, contest, contention, dispute, logomachy, strife of words, war of words.

Debate, v. a.

1. Discuss, argue, dispute, contest, canvass.

2. Battle for, contest, combat for, contend for, contest by arms.

Debate, v. n. Argue, dispute, deliberate, hold an argument.

Debauch, v. a.

1. Corrupt, vitiate, deprave, pollute.

2. Seduce, corrupt (to lewdness), deflour, rob or spoil of virginity.

Debauch, n.

1. Debauchery, excess, intemperance, dissipation, dissoluteness, licentiousness, lewdness, lust or gluttony.

2. Potation, compotation, revels, revelry, orgies, bacchanals, saturnalia, carousal, drinkingbout, drunken frolic, spree (colloq.).

3. Orgy, indulgence in lust, wantoning, excesses, bestial indulgence.

Debauchee, n. Libertine, rake, voluptuary, profligate, man of pleasure, roué.

Debauchery, n.

1. Excesses, dissipation, dissoluteness.

2. Licentiousness, lewdness. See debauch, n.