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词汇 debauch
释义 debauch
verb[ T ]
uk /dɪˈbɔːtʃ/ us /dɪˈbɑːtʃ/
to destroy or damage something so that it is no longer considered good or moral: 使变坏,使败坏
Lenin said that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency.列宁说,摧毁资本主义体系的最好办法是击垮其货币。
Synonyms
corrupt
depraveformal
pervertdisapproving
vitiateformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Damaging and spoiling
adulterant
adulterate
adulterated
adulteration
applecart
butcher
dry rot
eat
eat away at something
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flaw
foul
queer
rain on someone's paradeidiom
rampage
ravage
ravages
seismic
sour
wreck

Examples of debauch


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They both said that if you want to overturn the existing basis of society, the easiest way to do it is to debauch the currency.
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But a conspiracy to debauch public morals—where would that begin and where, indeed, would it end?
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The bankers' cry is always that if the currency is left to politicians, they will debauch it.
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It gets so much attention as to amount to a national debauch.
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It will not debauch him; it will not encourage him in vicious habits.
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Are they the people to whom we would deny the right to choose what they shall hear, lest they be debauched?
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It is the morning after the debauch which is less pleasant, and we are getting perilously near the hangover.
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It is the retribution, the headache that follows a somewhat protracted political debauch.
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Is it that the public will be debauched in some way because they have to listen to unworthy programmes issued by sponsored radio?
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He has debauched us with our own money.
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Second, inflation not only divides but debauches the nation.
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I use the word "debauch," not in the sense of drunkenness but in the sense of responsibility towards public funds.
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There is no more certain way of creating such a crisis than by debauching the currency.
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I think that it is in some ways debauching, not extending, choice.
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He did this by telling us that we are now debauching the currency.
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