See debauch on Wiktionary
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"ref": "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, published 1971, page 19:",
"text": "Those who with nine months toil had spoil’d a Play,\nIn hopes of Eating at a full Third day,\nJustly despairing longer to sustain\nA craving Stomach from an empty Brain,\nHave left Stage-Practice, chang’d their old Vocations,\nAtoning for bad Plays, with worse Translations,\nAnd like old Sternhold with laborious spite,\nBurlesque what nobler Muses better write:\nThus while they for their Causes only seem\nTo change the Channel, they corrupt the Stream.\nSo breaking Vintners to increase their Wine,\nWith nauseous Drugs debauch the generous Vine:\nSo barren Gipsies for recruit are said,\nWith Strangers Issue to maintain the Trade;\nBut lest the fair Bantling should be known,\nA daubing Walnut makes him all their own.",
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(transitive) to debase something",
"word": "abwerten"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(transitive) to debase something",
"word": "entwerten"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(transitive) to debase something",
"word": "verschlechtern"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "diaftheíro",
"sense": "(transitive) to debase something",
"word": "διαφθείρω"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ekfylízo",
"sense": "(transitive) to debase something",
"word": "εκφυλίζω"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "(transitive) to debase something",
"word": "whakatautauhea"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "(transitive) to debase something",
"word": "whakatautauwhea"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "unižátʹ",
"sense": "(transitive) to debase something",
"word": "унижа́ть"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "(transitive) to debase something",
"word": "devalvera"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to indulge in revelry",
"word": "schwelgen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to indulge in revelry",
"word": "prassen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to indulge in revelry",
"word": "verkommen"
}
],
"word": "debauch"
}
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