Corruption

[kə'rʌpʃ(ə)n] or [kə'rʌpʃən]

解释:

(noun.) inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); 'he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering'.

(noun.) destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; 'corruption of a minor'; 'the big city's subversion of rural innocence'.

(noun.) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; 'the luxury and corruption among the upper classes'; 'moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration'; 'its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity'; 'Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction'.

(noun.) decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation).

卡尔文校对--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.

(n.) The product of corruption; putrid matter.

(n.) The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery.

(n.) The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language.

整理:洛蒂

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Putrefaction, putrescence.[2]. Defilement, contamination, pollution, infection, vitiation, adulteration, debasement.[3]. Depravity, depravation, wickedness, demoralization, immorality, laxity, looseness of morals, want of principle.

录入:昆西

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Decomposition, decay, putrescence, adulteration, dev, pravity, rottenness,defilement, deterioration, perversion, debasement, taint, contamination,putrefaction

ANT:Vitality, organization, purity, purification, amelioration

录入:莉娜