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.