Word Meanings - DEBAUCHERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance. The republic of Paris will endeavor to complete the debauchery of the army. Burke. 2. Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust;

Additional info about word: DEBAUCHERY

1. Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance. The republic of Paris will endeavor to complete the debauchery of the army. Burke. 2. Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness. Oppose . . . debauchery by temperance. Sprat.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEBAUCHERY)

• Crapulence
• Surfeit
• headache
• dissipation
• debauchery
• excess
• muddiness
• Excess
• Advance
• increase
• abundance
• redundancy
• superfluity
• extravagance
• surplus
• intemperance

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DEBAUCHERY)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease

Related words: (words related to DEBAUCHERY)

• SUPERFLUITY
  1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
• SURPLUS
  1. That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus. 2. Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• CRAPULENCE
  The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit. Bailey.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• DECREASE
  1. A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength. 2. The wane of the moon. Bacon.
• ABUNDANCE
  An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• WITHDRAWAL
  The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
• WITHDRAW
  1. To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like. Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. Hooker. 2. To
• WITHDRAWER
  One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.
• HINDEREST
  Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a. Chaucer.
• INCREASE
  The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; -- said of the moon. Seeds, hair, nails, hedges, and herbs will grow soonest if set or cut in the increase of the moon. Bacon. Increase twist, the twixt of a rifle groove in which the
• ADVANCED
  1. In the van or front. 2. In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers. 3. Far on in life or time. A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles. Hawthorne.
• SURFEIT-WATER
  Water for the cure of surfeits. Locke.
• DEGRADEMENT
  Deprivation of rank or office; degradation. Milton.
• HINDERMOST; HINDMOST
  Furthest in or toward the rear; last. "Rachel and Joseph hindermost." Gen. xxxiii. 2. (more info) superlative from the same source as the comparative hinder. See
• SURFEIT
  1. To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; -- often reflexive; as, to surfeit one's self with sweets. 2. To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as,
• WITHHOLD
  1. To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action. Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him. Spenser. 2. To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition. Forbid who will, none shall
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• INSUPPRESSIVE
  Insuppressible. "The insuppressive mettle of our spirits." Shak.
• ADVANCE
  supposed LL. abantiare; ab + ante before. The spelling 1. To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on. 2. To raise; to elevate. They . . . advanced their eyelids. Shak. 3. To raise to a higher rank; to promote. Ahasueres