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Debauch vs Debris - What's the difference?

debauch | debris |

As a noun debris is

rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.

debauch

English

Noun

(es)
  • An individual act of debauchery.
  • *1902 , Thomas Ebenezer Webb, The Mystery of William Shakespeare: A Summary of Evidence , page 242:
    • Greene died of a debauch ; and Marlowe, the gracer of tragedians, perished in an ignominious brawl.
  • * 1913 , , The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu , ch. 25:
    • [T]he room probably was one which he actually used for opium debauches .
  • An orgy.
  • * 1955 , , Catch-22 , ch. 13:
    • [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)
  • To morally corrupt (someone); to seduce.
  • * 1727 , , The History of the Devil , ch. 9:
    • 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.
  • To debase (something); to lower the value of (something).
  • * 2014 March 23, , " 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 * debauchment

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    debris

    English

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    Noun

    (-)
  • Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=December 21, author=David M. Halbfinger, Charles V. Bagli and Sarah Maslin Nir, title=On Ravaged Coastline, It’s Rebuild Deliberately vs. Rebuild Now, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=His neighbors were still ripping out debris . But Mr. Ryan, a retired bricklayer who built his house by hand 30 years ago only to lose most of it to Hurricane Sandy, was already hard at work rebuilding. }}
  • Litter and discarded refuse.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].}}
  • The ruins of a broken-down structure
  • (geology) Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.

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