What are some opposite words for debauch?
Antonyms for debauch
dɪˈbɔtʃde·bauch
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debauchnoun
Antonyms:
meal, moderation, frugality, asceticism, abstinence, fast, macerationdebauchverb
Antonyms:
purify, enlighten, ameliorate, elevate, make betterSynonyms:
seduce, corrupt, ravish, violate, pollute, defile, vitiate
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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, bingecorrupt, 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"
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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
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
debauchnoun
Antonyms:
temperance, continence, moderationSynonyms:
debauchery, dissipation, abandon, drunkenness saturnalia, orgies, bacchanals, lechery, rapedebauchverb
Synonyms:
vitiate, deprave, corrupt, demoralize, ravish, rape
How to use debauch in a sentence?
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.
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.
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#852 | fast | |
#5091 | meal | |
#17149 | moderation | |
#24124 | abstinence | |
#29876 | elevate | |
#33465 | enlighten | |
#36357 | purify | |
#60127 | ameliorate | |
#95106 | frugality | |
#97514 | asceticism | |
#164468 | maceration | |
#212610 | debauch |
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