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prostitute definition and meaning

v. t. To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.
v. t. To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute official powers.
a. Openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or infamous purposes.
n. A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot.
n. A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire.