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corrupt
[ kuh-ruhpt ]
adjective
- guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked:
a corrupt judge.
Synonyms: trustworthy, false
a corrupt society.
- (of a text) made inferior by errors or alterations:
Scholars compared the corrupt Alexandrian manuscript with a more reliable Greek translation.
- infected; tainted.
- Archaic. decayed; putrid.
Synonyms: spoiled, decomposed, rotten, putrescent
- Computers. relating to or designating computer code or stored data that contains errors:
If the corrupt file won’t open, restore a previous save.
verb (used with object)
- to destroy the integrity of; cause to be dishonest, disloyal, etc., especially by bribery.
Synonyms: demoralize, suborn, buy, bribe
- to lower morally; pervert:
to corrupt youth.
- to alter (a language, text, etc.) for the worse; debase.
- to mar; spoil.
- to infect; taint.
Synonyms: defile, pollute, contaminate
- Archaic. to make putrid or putrescent.
Synonyms: putrefy
- Computers. to introduce errors in (computer code or stored data) when saving, transmitting, or retrieving it:
I downloaded some free modifications that corrupted the core program, so I can’t open it until I uninstall and reinstall the original version.
- English Law. (in historical use) to subject (an attainted person) to corruption of blood.
verb (used without object)
- to become corrupt.
corrupt
/ kəˈrʌpt /
adjective
- lacking in integrity; open to or involving bribery or other dishonest practices
corrupt practices in an election
a corrupt official
- morally depraved
- putrid or rotten
- contaminated; unclean
- (of a text or manuscript) made meaningless or different in meaning from the original by scribal errors or alterations
- (of computer programs or data) containing errors
verb
- to become or cause to become dishonest or disloyal
- to debase or become debased morally; deprave
- tr to infect or contaminate; taint
- tr to cause to become rotten
- tr to alter (a text, manuscript, etc) from the original
- tr computing to introduce errors into (data or a program)
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Derived Forms
- corˈruptness, noun
- corˈruptive, adjective
- corˈrupter, noun
- corˈruptly, adverb
- corˈruptively, adverb
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Other Words From
- cor·rupted·ly adverb
- cor·rupted·ness noun
- cor·rupter cor·ruptor noun
- cor·ruptive adjective
- cor·ruptive·ly adverb
- cor·ruptly adverb
- cor·ruptness noun
- noncor·rupt adjective
- noncor·ruptly adverb
- noncor·ruptness noun
- noncor·rupter noun
- noncor·ruptive adjective
- over·cor·rupt verb adjective
- over·cor·ruptly adverb
- precor·rupt verb (used with object)
- precor·ruptly adverb
- precor·ruptness noun
- precor·ruptive adjective
- uncor·rupt adjective
- uncor·ruptly adverb
- uncor·ruptness noun
- uncor·rupted adjective
- uncor·rupted·ly adverb
- uncor·rupted·ness noun
- uncor·rupting adjective
- uncor·ruptive adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of corrupt1
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Example Sentences
These young adults have voluntarily checked out of a political system they consider corrupt and dysfunctional.
Cuba, already corrupt, will have to avoid becoming even more so when American investment pours in.
So, is Rampal really that different from a corrupt, charismatic megachurch leader felled by scandal?
That suggestion turns absurd when you consider the long list of corrupt Democrat politicians Lynch has sent to prison.
This corrupt bargain results in a decade-long stasis, with far-reaching implications.
He will tell you that evil communications corrupt good manners, and pitch defiles.
It is tolerably certain that this is a corrupt form of the passage, and only makes the matter darker.
The administration had been too corrupt, the exactions too heavy to be longer borne, when reform appeared to be within reach.
Their speech is a dialect called Chabucano—a mixture of very corrupt Spanish and native tongues.
And the degraded society, like the robe which once covered the living body, but is afterwards cast off, is faded and corrupt.
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