The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prostitute \Pros"ti*tute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prostituted; p. pr. & vb. n. Prostituting.] [L. prostitutus, p. p. of prostituere to prostitute; pro before, forth + statuere to put, place. See Statute.]
To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire. ``Do not prostitute thy daughter.''
--Lev. xix. 29.To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute official powers.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of prostitute English)
Usage examples of "prostituting".
How many millions of children forced to be thieves or prostituting themselves for bars of chocolate?
The last time he had visited Hanging Ax Alley, he had seen a mother prostituting her child for gin, while beggars and whores crammed in the narrow lanes like sardines.
Every so often these babies appeared, and they always met with tragic ends: they killed themselves, they ran off and became circus performers, they were seen years later in Bursa, begging or prostituting themselves.