To pollute or ruin somebody's character or dignity. Usually used to mean seducing somebody from their virtue and destroying their
honor.
To corrupt, demoralize, humiliate, degrade, contaminate, bastardize, demean,
prostitute, deface,
shame, befoul, besmirch, disgrace, or defile.
Along with
incest with his sisters, Caligula liked to
rape and debauch the wives and daughters of Rome's senators and nobles, many of whom he forced to work in his palace brothel. He smugly summoned the wives of his guests away from the dinner
table, raped them, and returned them to their husbands and further disgraced the women by bragging about the act.