corrupt

Forms

1.Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
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.
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.In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

1.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.
2.To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify.
3.To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
4.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.
- George Soros remains a favorite target of conservative conspiracy theorists, seeing his corrupting influence behind every liberal movement and within every nook and cranny.

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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”).