CORRUPTING
corrupting, contaminating
(adjective) that infects or taints
corrupting, degrading
(adjective) harmful to the mind or morals; “corrupt judges and their corrupting influence”; “the vicious and degrading cult of violence”
corrupting
(adjective) seducing into corrupt practices
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
corrupting
present participle of corrupt
Source: Wiktionary
CORRUPT
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