Word Definition

Prostitute

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