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debauches

debauches is the plural of debauch.

debauches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of debauch.

Meaning of debauch

Noun

debauch (plural debauches)

  1. An individual act of debauchery.
    • [E]v'ry twentieth pace / Conducts the unguarded noſe to ſuch a whiff / Of ſtale debauch forth-iſſuing from the ſtyes / That law has licenſed, as makes temp'rance reel.1785, William Cowper, “Book IV. The Winter Evening.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 161
  2. An orgy.
    • The flowers, oppressive to the eyes, blazed with not a petal stirring, in a debauch of sun.1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC; republished as chapter 2, in Burmese Days (ebook no. 0200051h.html)...

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Questions about debauches

What is debauches the plural of?
Debauches is the plural of debauch.

Words near debauches in the dictionary

  1. debaucheries
  2. debaucherous
  3. debaucherously
  4. debauchers
  5. debauchery
  6. debauches
  7. debauching
  8. debauchings
  9. debauchment
  10. debauchments
  11. debauchness

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