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Meanings of debauch in English
A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity.
Synonyms
Examples for "riot"
Examples for "riot"
1
Several people were stabbed before French riot police restored order, officials said.
2
Police riot squads were used and several mounted police charges were made.
3
Don't start no riot.' That ain't really what he want to say.
4
Military personnel, riot police and water cannon have arrived at the scene.
5
Twelve civilians and four soldiers died in the riot; scores were injured.
1
Some friends of yours havin' an orgy you don't want to miss?
2
Aidan had forgotten, in his shopping orgy, that he might need handkerchiefs.
3
Goodbye cheerful fashion updates, hello to a veritable orgy of negative press.
4
There is a really intense orgy scene that you cannot prepare for.
5
The orgy of blood and lust and destruction lasted for two days.
1
Both claims allow the police to make a prostitution and debauchery case.
2
In between the very best drinks and drugs and debauchery, of course.
3
In the chief cities of the cantons, debauchery and dissipation were rife.
4
The reign of Charles II was pre-eminently distinguished for licentiousness and debauchery.
5
Do not think that this means debauchery and profligacy; nothing like it.
1
I prefer the opera-balls to the saturnalia of the Goddess of Reason.
2
With nightfall the saturnalia of death would begin again with redoubled force.
3
I never see her, but amid all the saturnalia she haunts me.
4
The saturnalia, subdued for a moment, threatened at times to renew itself.
5
But the dram-drinking and nose-slitting of the saturnalia of Charles II.
1
This is the immemorial bacchanal lurching through the kaleidoscope of the centuries.
2
The individual I had seen at Baden,-thegamester, the bacchanal, the debauchee!
3
His eye was alight, his color coppery, his air swagger, devil-may-care, bacchanal.
4
It's usually a deeply technical bacchanal, but this year was not.
5
At the height of the bacchanal I emptied the purse into a bottle.
1
Their life was dominated by suburban bacchanalia of alcohol, nicotine, gasoline, and kisses.
2
The likely political dynamic would be a bacchanalia of cutting.
3
But, sir, if you please, why have you brought this bacchanalia into your home?
4
It is the next wave of aid, which is the main course in this bacchanalia.
5
The frivolity and drunken recklessness was true to the spirit of that earlier forest bacchanalia.
1
His search led him through all the drunken revelry of a Saturday night.
2
Almost ubiquitously, such rites were followed with drunken revelry and, inevitably, much kissing.
3
Spontaneous drunken revelry flared up on all sides, like forest fires.
4
He will think I have chosen to spend my afterlife in drunken revelry.
5
From their right, the sounds of drunken revelry pounded through the side of Hattigan's.
Usage of debauch in English
1
The chances for a debauch looked peaked and slim in the extreme.
2
Night comes and robs me of the finish of the unbridled debauch.
3
The unfortunate governor's ukase had precipitated a general debauch for all hands.
4
The Maalem rose at last, somewhat unsteadily after his debauch of kief.
5
It is splendid flesh, but he has been on a long debauch.
6
At St. Bartholomew's he had an attack of vomiting after a debauch.
7
Could debauch, could ruin of body and soul be put more plainly?
8
The debauch of the previous night had left the usual effects behind it.
9
One had in mind the cleaning up after some ghastly debauch.
10
It is a necessary relaxation of the strenuous, a debauch of the soul.
11
The dangerous work of the next few months became like a long debauch.
12
The Padishah went on quite impassible-thepicture of debauch and ennui.
13
He was in misery; he was paying for last night's debauch.
14
The man was still drunk, but only with the lees of the debauch.
15
But the Lost Nation folks use it as an excuse for a debauch.
16
War is a great debauch, perhaps now the last the race will experience.
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