different between debauched vs rakehell

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??b??t?t/
• Rhymes: -??t?t

Adjective

debauched (comparative more debauched, superlative most debauched)

1. Indulging in or characterised by sensual pleasures to a degree perceived to be morally harmful; corrupted; immoral; self-indulgent.

Synonyms

• degenerate
• degraded
• dissipated
• dissolute
• fast
• libertine
• licentious
• profligate
• riotous

Derived terms

• debauchedly
• debauchedness
• debauchery

Translations

Verb

debauched

1. simple past tense and past participle of debauch

English

Alternative forms

• rake-hell

Etymology

From to rake (out) hell (“to search through hell thoroughly”), in the sense of a person so evil or immoral that they cannot be found in hell even after an extensive search: see rake (“to search through (thoroughly)”). Compare rakeshame.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??e?kh?l/

Adjective

rakehell (comparative more rakehell, superlative most rakehell)

1. (archaic) Immoral; dissolute. [from 16th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:

     And farre away, amid their rakehell bands, / They spide a Lady left all succourlesse […].

Synonyms

• rakehelly

Noun

rakehell (plural rakehells)

1. (archaic) A lewd or wanton person; a debauchee; a rake. [from 16th c.]
   • a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, Of Industry in General (sermon)

     It seldom doth happen, in any way of life, that a sluggard and a rakehell do not go together.

References

Anagrams

• hell-rake