corrupt

• WordNet 3.6
  • adj corrupt lacking in integrity "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation","a corrupt and incompetent city government"
  • adj corrupt touched by rot or decay "tainted bacon","`corrupt' is archaic"
  • adj corrupt containing errors or alterations "a corrupt text","spoke a corrupted version of the language"
  • adj corrupt not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
  • v corrupt alter from the original
  • v corrupt place under suspicion or cast doubt upon "sully someone's reputation"
  • v corrupt make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence "This judge can be bought"
  • v corrupt corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality "debauch the young people with wine and women","Socrates was accused of corrupting young men","Do school counselors subvert young children?","corrupt the morals"
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• Interesting fact: The name Santa Claus is a corruption of the Dutch dialect name for Saint Nicholas Sint Klass.
• • Corrupt Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt .
  • Corrupt Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound. "Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them."
  • Corrupt Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges. "At what ease
    Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt To swear against you."
  • Corrupt To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
  • Corrupt To become vitiated; to lose purity or goodness.
  • Corrupt To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.
  • Corrupt To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile. "Evil communications corrupt good manners."
  • Corrupt To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text. "He that makes an ill use of it [language], though he does not corrupt the fountains of knowledge, . . . yet he stops the pines."
  • Corrupt To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe. "Heaven is above all yet; there sits a Judge
    That no king can corrupt ."
  • Corrupt To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless. "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt ."
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• Interesting fact: The Virginia Code (1930) has a statute: "To prohibit corrupt practices or bribery by any person other than candidates."
• • corrupt To injure; mar; spoil; destroy.
  • corrupt To vitiate physically; render unsound; taint or contaminate as with disease; decompose: as, to corrupt the blood.
  • corrupt To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; cause the decomposition of (an organic body), as by a natural process, accompanied by a fetid smell; change from a good to a bad physical condition, in any way.
  • corrupt To vitiate or deprave, in a moral sense; change from good to bad; infect with evil; pervert; debase.
  • corrupt To pervert or vitiate the integrity of; entice from allegiance, or from a good to an evil course of conduct; influence by a bribe or other wrong motive.
  • corrupt To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; infect with imperfections or errors; falsify; pervert: as, to corrupt language; to corrupt a text.
  • corrupt Synonyms Spoil, taint. Contaminate, deprave, demoralize. See taint, v. t.
  • corrupt To become putrid; putrefy; rot.
  • corrupt Synonyms Decay, Putrefy, etc. See rot.
  • corrupt Decomposing, or showing signs of decomposition; putrid; spoiled; tainted; vitiated.
  • corrupt Debased in character; depraved; perverted; infected with evil.
  • corrupt Dishonest; without integrity; guilty of dishonesty involving bribery, or a disposition to bribe or be bribed: as, corrupt practices; a corrupt judge.
  • corrupt Changed for the worse; debased or falsified by admixture, addition, or alteration; erroneous or full of errors: as, a corrupt text.
  • corrupt Legally tainted, as by an act of attainder of treason or felony: said of the blood of one legally attainted. See corruption, 8.
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• • v.t Corrupt kor-upt′ to make putrid: to defile: to mar: to debase: to bribe
  • v.i Corrupt to rot: to lose purity
  • adj Corrupt putrid: depraved: defiled: not genuine: full of errors
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• Edmund Burke

  

  “Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.”
• Karl Kraus

  

  “Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.”
• John Lyly

  

  “The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.”
• Edmund Burke

  

  “Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.”
• Publius Cornelius Tacitus

  

  “The more corrupt the state, the more laws.”
• Francis Bacon

  

  “Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.”

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