Corrupt

[kə'rʌpt]

Definition

(verb.) alter from the original.

(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'.

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

(adj.) touched by rot or decay; 'tainted bacon'; '`corrupt' is archaic' .

(adj.) containing errors or alterations; 'a corrupt text'; 'spoke a corrupted version of the language' .

Checker: Nanette--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

(a.) Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges.

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

(v. t.) To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.

(v. t.) To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile.

(v. t.) To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe.

(v. t.) To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text.

(v. t.) To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

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

(v. i.) To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness.

Edited by Angelina

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Putrefy, render putrid.[2]. Contaminate, taint, defile, pollute, infect, vitiate, spoil, adulterate, sophisticate, debase.[3]. Deprave, demoralize.

a. [1]. Corrupted, infected, spoiled, tainted, vitiated, putrid, contaminated, unsound.[2]. Depraved, wicked, vicious, dissolute, profligate, reprobate, abandoned.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Defiled, polluted, vitiated, decayed, depraved, putrid, rotten, infected,tainted, profligate, contaminated

ANT:Pure, uncorrupt, undented

SYN:Spoil, deteriorate, impair, putrefy, vitiate, demoralize, debase, defile,contaminate, pollute, deprave

ANT:Mend, repair, purify, cleanse, correct, ameliorate, better

Edited by Anselm

Definition

v.t. to make putrid: to defile: to mar: to debase: to bribe.—v.i. to rot: to lose purity.—adj. putrid: depraved: defiled: not genuine: full of errors.—ns. Corrupt′er; Corruptibil′ity Corrupt′ibleness.—adj. Corrupt′ible liable to be corrupted.—adv. Corrupt′ibly.—ns. Corrup′tion rottenness: putrid matter: impurity: bribery; Corrup′tionist one who defends or who practises corruption.—adj. Corrupt′ive having the quality of corrupting.—adv. Corrupt′ly.—n. Corrupt′ness.

Edited by Leopold