CORRUPT

corrupt

(adjective) lacking in integrity; “humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam’s creation”; “a corrupt and incompetent city government”

corrupt, tainted

(adjective) touched by rot or decay; “tainted bacon”; “‘corrupt’ is archaic”

corrupt, corrupted

(adjective) containing errors or alterations; “a corrupt text”; “spoke a corrupted version of the language”

crooked, corrupt

(adjective) not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

corrupt, spoil

(verb) alter from the original

defile, sully, corrupt, taint, cloud

(verb) place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; “sully someone’s reputation”

bribe, corrupt, buy, grease one's palms

(verb) make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; “This judge can be bought”

corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect

(verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; “debauch the young people with wine and women”; “Socrates was accused of corrupting young men”; “Do school counselors subvert young children?”; “corrupt the morals”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adjective

corrupt (comparative more corrupt, superlative most corrupt)

In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.

Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.

In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

Usage notes

• Nouns to which "corrupt" is often applied: practice, state, country, nation, regime, city, government, person, man, politician, leader, mayor, judge, member, minister, file, database, document, woman.

Synonyms

• corrupted

Verb

corrupt (third-person singular simple present corrupts, present participle corrupting, simple past and past participle corrupted)

(transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.

(intransitive) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.

To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.

To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

Source: Wiktionary

Cor*rupt` (kr-rpt"), a. Etym: [L. corruptus, p. p. of corrumpere to corrupt; cor- + rumpere to break. See Rupture.]

1. Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound. Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them. Knolles.

2. Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges. At what ease Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt To swear against you. Shak.

3. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.

Cor*rupt", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Corrupted; p. pr. & vb. n. Corrupting.]

1. To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.

2. To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile. Evil communications corrupt good manners. 1. Cor. xv. 33.

3. To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe. Heaven is above all yet; there sits a Judge That no king can corrupt. Shak.

4. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text. He that makes an ill use of it [language], though he does not corrupt the fountains of knowledge, . . . yet he stops the pines. Locke.

5. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt. Matt. vi. 19.

Cor*rupt" (kr-rpt"), v. i.

1. To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot. Bacon.

2. To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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