débaucher
French, verb/de.bo.ʃe/
débaucher is spelled D-É-B-A-U-C-H-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 51,352nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Débaucher is a French verb meaning “to debauch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Jeter dans la débauche, dans le vice”.
What does débaucher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to debauch
- 2
to lure away, to entice to desert or abandon one's duty, post, etc.
- 3
to headhunt (someone else's employee)
- 4
to make redundant, to lay off
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Jeter dans la débauche, dans le vice. 2. Provoquer à rompre ses engagements, à manquer à son devoir, en parlant d’ouvriers, de soldats, etc. 3. Renvoyer des ouvriers faute de travail à leur donner. 4. Faire quitter un travail, une occupation sérieuse pour un divertissement honnête ou un autre travail.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of débaucher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- débauchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- débauché participle past
- débauche first-person indicative present
- débauches indicative present second-person
- débauchons first-person indicative plural
- débauchez indicative plural present
- débauchent indicative plural present
- débauchais first-person imperfect indicative
- débauchait imperfect indicative singular
- débauchions first-person imperfect indicative
- débauchiez imperfect indicative plural
- débauchaient imperfect indicative plural
- débauchai first-person historic indicative
- débauchas historic indicative past
- débaucha historic indicative past
- débauchâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce débaucher?
- /de.bo.ʃe/
- \de.bo.ʃe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to débaucher
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is débaucher in French?
débaucher appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).