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Meaning of 'prostitute' (Webster Dictionary)

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

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