corrupt

adjective

1. 1

   Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.

2. 2

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

   The government here is corrupt, so we'll emigrate to escape them.

   The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

   At what ease Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt To swear against you.

3. 3

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

   The text of the manuscript is corrupt.

   It turned out that the program was corrupt - that's why it wouldn't open.

4. 4

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

   with such corrupt and pestilent bread to feed them.

verb

1. 1

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

   Don't you dare corrupt my son with those disgusting pictures!

   And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

   I think that there is a bad idea around in our world, and that idea is that 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely'. I think what really happens is that power attracts the corruptible.

   George Soros remains a favorite target of conservative conspiracy theorists, seeing his corrupting influence behind every liberal movement and within every nook and cranny.

2. 2

   archaicTo become putrid, tainted, or otherwise impure; to putrefy; to rot.

   he entrails, which are the parts aptest to corrupt

   […] Lanfrank takes Notice of Tract. 3. Doct. 3. cap. 18. ſaying, "I have ſeen many who being full of Humours, have made an Iſſue under the Knee, before due Purgation had been premis'd; whence, by reaſon of the too great Defluxion of Humours, the Legs tumified, ſo that the cauterized Place corrupted, and a Cancer (or rather cacoethic Ulcer) was thereby made, with which great Difficulty was cur'd."

3. 3

   To introduce errors; to place into an invalid state.

   Unplugging a flash drive without dismounting it first can corrupt the data stored on the drive.

4. 4

   To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify.

   to corrupt language, or a holy text

   to corrupt a book

5. 5

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

   Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt.

Forms

comparative

more corrupt

superlative

most corrupt

past tense

corrupted

past participle

corrupted

present participle

corrupting

third person singular

corrupts