Prostitute /(?)/

Pros·ti·tute

Prostitute

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Prostituted; p. pr. & vb. n. Prostituting

  1. To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.
  2. To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute official powers.

Prostitute

a.
  1. Openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or infamous purposes.
    Made bold by want, and prostitute for bread.

Prostitute

n.
  1. A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot.
  2. A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire.
    No hireling she, no prostitute to praise.