debauch

verb (used with object)

1. to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
2. to corrupt or pervert; sully: His honesty was debauched by the prospect of easy money.
3. Archaic. to lead away, as from allegiance or duty.

verb (used without object)

4. to indulge in debauchery.

noun

5. a period of wanton or sensual self-indulgence.
6. an uninhibited spree or party; orgy: a wild debauch.

verb

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

noun

3. an instance or period of extreme dissipation

v.

1590s, from Middle French débaucher “entice from work or duty,” from Old French desbaucher “to lead astray,” supposedly literally “to trim (wood) to make a beam” (from bauch “beam,” from Frankish balk or some other Germanic source akin to English balk). A sense of “shaving” something away, perhaps, but the root is also said to be a word meaning “workshop,” which gets toward the notion of “to lure someone off the job;” either way the sense evolution is unclear.