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orgy, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry

n. a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

pervert, corrupt, vitiate, debase, demoralize, profane, deprave, misdirect

v. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"

corruption, depravity, degeneracy

n. moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"

immorality

n. the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct; "the immorality of basing the defense of the West on the threat of mutual assured destruction"

indecency

n. the quality of being indecent

obscenity, lewdness, bawdiness, salaciousness, salacity

n. the trait of behaving in an obscene manner

self-gratification, dissoluteness, incontinence

n. indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures

licentiousness, wantonness, sexual immorality

n. the quality of being lewd and lascivious

fun, merriment, playfulness

n. activities that are enjoyable or amusing; "I do it for the fun of it"; "he is fun to have around"

intemperance, intemperateness, self-indulgence

n. excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence; "the intemperance of their language"

foul, pollute, contaminate, make impure

v. make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake"

taint, infect

v. contaminate with a disease or microorganism

carouse, riot, roister

v. engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking; "They were out carousing last night"

enjoy oneself, live it up

v. enjoy oneself; "it's your birthday, so let's live it up!"

party

v. have or participate in a party; "The students were partying all night before the exam"

foul, defile, befoul, maculate

v. spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it"

disgrace, degrade, put down, demean

v. reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture"

shame

v. cause to be ashamed

misinform, mislead, inform wrongly

v. give false or misleading information to

desecrate, deconsecrate

v. remove the consecration from a person or an object

score, seduce

v. induce to have sex; "Harry finally seduced Sally"; "Did you score last night?"; "Harry made Sally"

degrade, cheapen

v. lower the grade of something; reduce its worth

chagrin, mortify, humiliate, humble, abase

v. cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"

lower, lour, set lower, make lower

v. set lower; "lower a rating"; "lower expectations"

lower, lour, make quieter, turn down

v. make lower or quieter; "turn down the volume of a radio"

strain, deform, distort

v. alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy"

heave, buckle, warp

v. bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The highway buckled during the heat wave"

countermine, sabotage, weaken, undermine, counteract, subvert

v. destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war"

clean, make clean

v. make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from; "Clean the stove!"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth"

glorify, make glorious, bestow glory upon

v. bestow glory upon; "The victory over the enemy glorified the Republic"

better, amend, improve, ameliorate, meliorate, make better

v. to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"

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