debosh
debosh is the obsolete form of debauch.
Meaning of debauch
Verb
debauch (third-person singular simple present debauches, present participle debauching, simple past and past participle debauched)
- To morally corrupt (someone); to seduce.
- 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.1727, Daniel Defoe, chapter 9, in The History of the Devil
- Synonyms:
- immoralize, lead astray, sophisticate, adulterate, corrupt, demoralize, detort, file, pervert, pollute
- To debase (something); to lower the value of (something).
- Those who with nine months toil had spoil’d a Play,
In hopes of Eating at a full Third day,
Justly despairing longer to sustain
A craving Stomach from an empty Brain,
Have left Stage-Practice, chang’d their old Vocations,
Atoning for bad Plays, with worse Translations,
And like old Sternhold with...1685, Matthew Prior, “A Satyr on the modern Translators”, in H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, editors, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, Second edition, volume I, Oxford: Clarendon Press...
- Those who with nine months toil had spoil’d a Play,
- To indulge in revelry.
Forms of debosh
| third-person singular present | deboshes |
|---|---|
| present participle | deboshing |
| past participle | deboshed |
| past | deboshed |
| past participle | debosht |
| past | debosht |
Questions about debosh
- What is debosh the obsolete form of?
- Debosh is the obsolete form of debauch.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: debosh (page history and authors); debauch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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