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Corrupt

Corrupt Meaning & Definition
Corrupt Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Corrupt?

[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"
[adj] not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
[v] alter from the original
[v] place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation"
[v] make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; "This judge can be bought"
[v] 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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Corrupt: Augean | bribable | bribe | buy | cloud | corrupted | corruptible | crooked | debase | debased | debauch | defile | demoralise | demoralize | deprave | depraved | dirty | dishonest | immoral | imperfect | misdirect | perverse | pervert | perverted | praetorian | pretorian | profane | purchasable | putrid | reprobate | rotten | sneaky | sold-out(a) | sordid | spoil | subvert | sully | taint | tainted | underhand | underhanded | unscrupulous | venal | vitiate | vitiated

Related Terms | Find terms related to Corrupt: abandoned | abase | aberrant | abroad | abuse | adrift | adulterate | afflict | aggrieve | alienate | all abroad | all off | all wrong | alloy | amiss | amoral | approach | approachable | askew | astray | at fault | awry | bad | baneful | bastardize | befoul | benasty | beside the mark | bewitch | blight | brainwash | break down | break up | bribable | bribe | buy | buy off | buyable | canker | cankered | carious | cheapen | coarsen | condemn | confound | conscienceless | contaminate | contaminated | corrupted | corruptible | counterindoctrinate | criminal | crooked | crucify | crumble | crumble into dust | curse | cut | damage | dark | debase | debased | debauch | debauched | decadent | decay | decayed | deceptive | decompose | decomposed | defective | defile | deflower | degenerate | degrade | degraded | deleterious | delusive | demoralize | denaturalize | denature | deprave | depraved | desecrate | despoil | destroy | detrimental | devalue | deviant | deviational | deviative | devious | dial | dilute | disadvantage | dishonest | dishonorable | disintegrate | disserve | dissolute | distort | distorted | distress | do a mischief | do evil | do ill | do wrong | do wrong by | doctor | doctor up | doom | doubtful | dubious | envenom | errant | erring | erroneous | evasive | evil | face | fall into decay | fall to pieces | fallacious | false | faultful | faulty | features | felonious | fester | festering | fishy | fix | fixable | flagitious | flawed | fortify | foul | fraudulent | gangrene | gangrened | gangrenous | get at | get into trouble | get to | go bad | go to pieces | gone bad | grease | grease the palm | harass | harm | heretical | heterodox | hex | hurt | ill-got | ill-gotten | illogical | illusory | immoral | impair | indirect | indoctrinate | infamous | infect | injure | insidious | jinx | kisser | lace | low | maltreat | map | menace | mess | mess up | mildew | misadvise | miscreant | misdirect | miseducate | misguide | misinform | misinstruct | mislead | misteach | mistreat | misuse | mold | molder | molest | morally polluted | mortified | mortify | mug | mystify | nasty | necrose | necrosed | necrotic | nefarious | not kosher | not right | not true | noxious | obfuscate | oblique | obscure | off | off the track | on the pad | on the take | out | outrage | pan | pay off | peccant | pernicious | persecute | perverse | pervert | perverted | phiz | play havoc with | play hob with | poison | pollute | polluted | prejudice | profligate | prostitute | purchasable | purchase | puss | putrefied | putrefy | putresce | putrescent | putrid | questionable | rankle | ravage | ravish | reach | reindoctrinate | reprobate | rot | rotten | rotting | ruin | savage | scathe | self-contradictory | shady | shameless | shifty | sinister | slippery | smirch | soil | sphacelate | sphacelated | spike | spoil | spoiled | stain | steeped in iniquity | straying | suborn | subvert | subverted | sully | suppurate | suppurating | suppurative | suspicious | taint | tainted | take care of | tamper with | tarnish | threaten | tickle the palm | torment | torture | tricky | turn | twist | ulcerate | ulcerated | unconscienced | unconscientious | unconscionable | underhand | underhanded | unethical | unfactual | unorthodox | unprincipled | unproved | unsavory | unscrupulous | unstraightforward | untrue | untrustworthy | venal | vice-corrupted | vicious | villainous | violate | visage | vitiate | vitiated | vulgarize | warp | warped | water | water down | wicked | wide | win away | without remorse | without shame | wound | wreak havoc on | wreck | wrong

See Also | adulterate | alter | bastardise | bastardize | buy off | carnalise | carnalize | change | debase | deflower | dilute | dishonorable | impair | infect | lead astray | lead off | mar | modify | pay | pay off | poison | sensualise | sensualize | sop | spoil | stretch | suborn | unlawful | vitiate | whore

Corrupt In Webster's Dictionary

\Cor*rupt`\ (k?r-r?pt"), a. [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"\ (k?r-r?pt"), v. i. 1. To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot. --Bacon. 2. To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness.

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