[ilovesarah2012]

“debauching”

I admit I have never heard that term.

[redgolum]

That is in the Nebraska legal code if I am not mistaken.

Kind of funny.

[billyboy15]

Sadly I was never debauched as a teenager.

[McGruff]

...I admit I have never heard that term....

Me neither. Thank goodness for Internet Search Engines.

[Fiddlstix]

“debauching”

I admit I have never heard that term.

de·bauch

(dĭ-bôch′)

v. de·bauched, de·bauch·ing, de·bauch·es

v.tr.

1.

a. To corrupt morally. See Synonyms at corrupt.

b. To seduce (someone).

2. To reduce the value, quality, or excellence of; debase: debauch a currency.

3. Archaic To cause to forsake allegiance.

v.intr.

To indulge in dissipation.

n.

1. The act or a period of debauchery.

2. An orgy.

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[French débaucher, from Old French desbauchier, to lead astray, roughhew timber : des-, de- + bauch, beam, of Germanic origin.]

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de·bauch′ed·ly (-bô′chĭd-lē) adv.

de·bauch′er n.

debauch

(dɪˈbɔːtʃ) or

debosh

vb

1. (when tr, usually passive) to lead into a life of depraved self-indulgence

2. (tr) to seduce (a woman)

n

an instance or period of extreme dissipation

[C16: from Old French desbaucher to corrupt, literally: to shape (timber) roughly, from bauch beam, of Germanic origin]

debauchedly adv