corrupt
adjective
guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked.
had corrupted
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past perfectof corrupt.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Airbus investigated this incident and found that space weather had corrupted data in an elevator aileron computer which sends commands to the plane's flaps.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025
A senior Justice Department official, Roger Alford, later said lobbyists had corrupted the merger-review process.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
Mr. D’Antunono could not recall which carrier had corrupted data.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
The government also ceased jamming foreign radio broadcasts and lifted the ideological restraints that had corrupted art throughout the Soviet era.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
His heresy consisted in thinking that pagan ideas had been imported into, and so had corrupted, the original monotheism of Christianity.
From Books Condemned to be Burnt by James Anson Farrer
