Definition of prostitute

• 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.