corrupt
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English corrupten, derived from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpō (“to destroy, ruin, injure, spoil, corrupt, bribe”), from com- (“together”) + rumpō (“to break in pieces”).
Inflected forms:
form: more corrupt
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most corrupt
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: corrumpt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: corrump
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: corroupt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: corrupts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: corrupting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: corrupted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: corrupted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: corrumpt
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: corrump
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: corroupt
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
pos: adj
gloss: In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
pos: adj
examples: The text of the manuscript is corrupt.
It turned out that the program was corrupt - that's why it wouldn't open.
gloss: In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
pos: adj
examples: with such corrupt and pestilent bread to feed them.
gloss: To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To become putrid, tainted, or otherwise impure; to putrefy; to rot.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: 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."
gloss: To introduce errors; to place into an invalid state.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Unplugging a flash drive without dismounting it first can corrupt the data stored on the drive.
gloss: To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify.
pos: verb
examples: to corrupt language, or a holy text
to corrupt a book
gloss: To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
pos: verb
examples: Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt.
Synonyms: corrupted
Related words: corruptible
corruption
incorruptible
Derived words: corruptician
corruptless
corruptly
corruptness
corruptocracy
corrupt practice
incorrupt
noncorrupt
uncorrupt
corruptable
corruptee
corruptful
corruptingly
corruptive
corruptor
noncorrupting
recorrupt
uncorrupting
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