Injure vs Debauch - What's the difference?
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To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
To damage or impair.
To do injustice to.
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, , "
Injure is a related term of debauch.
In lang=en terms the difference between injure and debauch
is that injure is to do injustice to while debauch is to debase (something); to lower the value of (something).As verbs the difference between injure and debauch
is that injure is to wound or cause physical harm to a living creature while debauch is to morally corrupt (someone); to seduce.As a noun debauch is
an individual act of debauchery.injure
English
(injury)Verb
(injur)Synonyms
* harm * damage * hurt * disfigure * wound * mar * impairAntonyms
* praise * help * preserve * benefitdebauch
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.