debauch

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to corrupt morally or lead into excess; a bout of indulgence

   He feared the city would debauch his innocent nephew.

From Middle French débaucher ('to entice away from work or duty'), of uncertain earlier origin; perhaps from Old French desbaucher, from des- ('away') plus bauch ('beam, workshop'), the notion being 'to lure away from one's workbench'.

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