0 to destroy or damage something so that it is no longer considered good or moral:
Lenin said that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency.
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.
But a conspiracy to debauch public morals—where would that begin and where, indeed, would it end?
The bankers' cry is always that if the currency is left to politicians, they will debauch it.
It gets so much attention as to amount to a national debauch.
It will not debauch him; it will not encourage him in vicious habits.
Are they the people to whom we would deny the right to choose what they shall hear, lest they be debauched?
It is the morning after the debauch which is less pleasant, and we are getting perilously near the hangover.
It is the retribution, the headache that follows a somewhat protracted political debauch.
