corrupt
Meanings
Adjective
- Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
- In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
- Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
- In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
Verb
- To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
- To become putrid, tainted, or otherwise impure; to putrefy; to rot.
- To introduce errors; to place into an invalid state.
- To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify.
- To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
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Origin
- From Middle English corrupten, derived from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpÅ, from com- + rumpere.
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