Debauch vs Debouch - What's the difference?
debauch | debouch |
An individual act of debauchery.
*1902 , Thomas Ebenezer Webb, The Mystery of William Shakespeare: A Summary of Evidence , page 242:
* 1913 , , The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu , ch. 25:
An orgy.
* 1955 , , Catch-22 , ch. 13:
To morally corrupt (someone); to seduce.
* 1727 , , The History of the Devil , ch. 9:
To debase (something); to lower the value of (something).
* 2014 March 23, , "
(geography) A narrow outlet from which a body of water pours.
* 1888 , May 26, Phillip Carroll, Sulphur Mines in Sicily , in
(military) A fortress at the end of a defile.
* 1887 , , McClellan's Own Story ,
To pour forth from a narrow opening. To emerge from a narrow place like a defile into open country or a wider space.
:* 1985', the pretty pimpled young man, no longer a boy, came down from the imperial box in his purple to the performers’ well which '''debouched into the arena. — Anthony Burgess, ''Kingdom of the Wicked
:* 1993', Ungrateful brats '''debouch from their cheap holiday in someone else’s misery and their tired parents try desperately to summon up joy out of indifference. — Will Self, ''My Idea of Fun
:* 1997', the water rushes away in uncommonly long waterfalls, downward for hours, unbrak’d, till at last '''debouching into an interior Lake of great size — Thomas Pynchon, ''Mason & Dixon
As nouns the difference between debauch and debouch
is that debauch is an individual act of debauchery while debouch is a narrow outlet from which a body of water pours.As verbs the difference between debauch and debouch
is that debauch is to morally corrupt (someone); to seduce while debouch is to pour forth from a narrow opening. To emerge from a narrow place like a defile into open country or a wider space.debauch
English
Noun
(es)- 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 .
- [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.
Verb
(es)- But the Devil had met with too much Success in his first Attempts, not to go on with his general Resolution of debauching the Minds of Men, and bringing them off from God.
Peter Hitchens's Blog: 23 March 2014 1:41 AM," The Mail on Sunday (UK) (retrieved 18 April 2014):
- [S]aving of all kinds is pointless when interest is microscopic and state-sponsored inflation is debauching the currency.
Derived terms
* debauchee * debaucher * debauchery * debauchmentReferences
debouch
English
(wikipedia debouch)Noun
(debouches)Scientific American Supplement, No 647,
- In level portions of the country vertical shafts are preferred, but where the mine is situated upon a hill a debouch may often be found below the sulphur seam, ...
- To prevent another demonstration of this character, and to insure a debouch on the south bank of the James, it became necessary to occupy Coggin's Point, which was done on the 3d, and the enemy driven back towards Petersburg.
