'Corrupt' definitions:
Definition of 'corrupt'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Lacking in integrity; "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government" [ant: incorrupt]
adjective
adjective
Containing errors or alterations; "a corrupt text"; "spoke a corrupted version of the language" [syn: corrupt, corrupted]
adjective
Touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic" [syn: corrupt, tainted]
verb
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" [syn: corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect]
verb
Make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; "This judge can be bought" [syn: bribe, corrupt, buy, grease one's palms]
verb
Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation" [syn: defile, sully, corrupt, taint, cloud]
verb
Alter from the original [syn: corrupt, spoil]
Definition of 'Corrupt'
From: GCIDE
- Corrupt \Cor*rupt"\ (k?r-r?pt"), v. i.
- 1. To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To become vitiated; to lose purity or goodness. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Corrupt'
From: GCIDE
- Corrupt \Cor*rupt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Corrupted; p. pr. & vb. n. Corrupting.]
- 1. To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile. [1913 Webster]
- Evil communications corrupt good manners. --1. Cor. xv. 33. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe. [1913 Webster]
- Heaven is above all yet; there sits a Judge That no king can corrupt. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text. [1913 Webster]
- He that makes an ill use of it [language], though he does not corrupt the fountains of knowledge, . . . yet he stops the pines. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless. [1913 Webster]
- Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt. --Matt. vi. 19. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Corrupt'
From: GCIDE
- Corrupt \Cor*rupt`\ (k?r-r?pt"), a. [L. corruptus, p. p. of corrumpere to corrupt; cor- + rumpere to break. See Rupture.]
- 1. Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound. [1913 Webster]
- Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them. --Knolles. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges. [1913 Webster]
- At what ease Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt To swear against you. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'corrupt'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandoned,
- abase,
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- abuse,
- adrift,
- adulterate,
- afflict,
- aggrieve,
- alienate,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- alloy,
- amiss,
- amoral,
- approach,
- approachable,
- askew,
- astray,
- at fault,
- awry,
- bad,
- baneful,
- bastardize,
- befoul,
- benasty,
- beside the mark,
- bewitch,
- blight,
- brainwash,
- break down,
- break up,
- bribable,
- bribe,
- buy,
- buy off,
- buyable,
- canker,
- cankered,
- carious,
- cheapen,
- coarsen,
- condemn,
- confound,
- conscienceless,
- contaminate,
- contaminated,
- corrupted,
- corruptible,
- counterindoctrinate,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- crucify,
- crumble,
- crumble into dust,
- curse,
- cut,
- damage,
- dark,
- debase,
- debased,
- debauch,
- debauched,
- decadent,
- decay,
- decayed,
- deceptive,
- decompose,
- decomposed,
- defective,
- defile,
- deflower,
- degenerate,
- degrade,
- degraded,
- deleterious,
- delusive,
- demoralize,
- denaturalize,
- denature,
- deprave,
- depraved,
- desecrate,
- despoil,
- destroy,
- detrimental,
- devalue,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- devious,
- dial,
- dilute,
- disadvantage,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- disintegrate,
- disserve,
- dissolute,
- distort,
- distorted,
- distress,
- do a mischief,
- do evil,
- do ill,
- do wrong,
- do wrong by,
- doctor,
- doctor up,
- doom,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- envenom,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- evasive,
- evil,
- face,
- fall into decay,
- fall to pieces,
- fallacious,
- false,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- features,
- felonious,
- fester,
- festering,
- fishy,
- fix,
- fixable,
- flagitious,
- flawed,
- fortify,
- foul,
- fraudulent,
- gangrene,
- gangrened,
- gangrenous,
- get at,
- get into trouble,
- get to,
- go bad,
- go to pieces,
- gone bad,
- grease,
- grease the palm,
- harass,
- harm,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- hex,
- hurt,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- immoral,
- impair,
- indirect,
- indoctrinate,
- infamous,
- infect,
- injure,
- insidious,
- jinx,
- kisser,
- lace,
- low,
- maltreat,
- map,
- menace,
- mess,
- mess up,
- mildew,
- misadvise,
- miscreant,
- misdirect,
- miseducate,
- misguide,
- misinform,
- misinstruct,
- mislead,
- misteach,
- mistreat,
- misuse,
- mold,
- molder,
- molest,
- morally polluted,
- mortified,
- mortify,
- mug,
- mystify,
- nasty,
- necrose,
- necrosed,
- necrotic,
- nefarious,
- not kosher,
- not right,
- not true,
- noxious,
- obfuscate,
- oblique,
- obscure,
- off,
- off the track,
- on the pad,
- on the take,
- out,
- outrage,
- pan,
- pay off,
- peccant,
- pernicious,
- persecute,
- perverse,
- pervert,
- perverted,
- phiz,
- play havoc with,
- play hob with,
- poison,
- pollute,
- polluted,
- prejudice,
- profligate,
- prostitute,
- purchasable,
- purchase,
- puss,
- putrefied,
- putrefy,
- putresce,
- putrescent,
- putrid,
- questionable,
- rankle,
- ravage,
- ravish,
- reach,
- reindoctrinate,
- reprobate,
- rot,
- rotten,
- rotting,
- ruin,
- savage,
- scathe,
- self-contradictory,
- shady,
- shameless,
- shifty,
- sinister,
- slippery,
- smirch,
- soil,
- sphacelate,
- sphacelated,
- spike,
- spoil,
- spoiled,
- stain,
- steeped in iniquity,
- straying,
- suborn,
- subvert,
- subverted,
- sully,
- suppurate,
- suppurating,
- suppurative,
- suspicious,
- taint,
- tainted,
- take care of,
- tamper with,
- tarnish,
- threaten,
- tickle the palm,
- torment,
- torture,
- tricky,
- turn,
- twist,
- ulcerate,
- ulcerated,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unfactual,
- unorthodox,
- unprincipled,
- unproved,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- untrue,
- untrustworthy,
- venal,
- vice-corrupted,
- vicious,
- villainous,
- violate,
- visage,
- vitiate,
- vitiated,
- vulgarize,
- warp,
- warped,
- water,
- water down,
- wicked,
- wide,
- win away,
- without remorse,
- without shame,
- wound,
- wreak havoc on,
- wreck,
- wrong