'Corruption' definitions:
Definition of 'corruption'
(from WordNet)
noun
Lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain [syn: corruptness, corruption] [ant: incorruption, incorruptness]
noun
noun
Decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
noun
Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction" [syn: corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefaction]
noun
Destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence" [syn: corruption, subversion]
noun
Inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering"
Definition of 'Corruption'
From: GCIDE
- Corruption \Cor*rup"tion\ (k?r-r?p"sh?n), n. [F. corruption, L. corruptio.]
- 1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. [1913 Webster]
- The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to "generation". --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The product of corruption; putrid matter. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery. [1913 Webster]
- It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them. --Hallam. [1913 Webster]
- They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days. --Bancroft. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Corruption, when applied to officers, trustees, etc., signifies the inducing a violation of duty by means of pecuniary considerations. --Abbott. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language. [1913 Webster]
- Corruption of blood (Law), taint or impurity of blood, in consequence of an act of attainder of treason or felony, by which a person is disabled from inheriting any estate or from transmitting it to others. [1913 Webster]
- Corruption of blood can be removed only by act of Parliament. --Blackstone.
- Syn: Putrescence; putrefaction; defilement; contamination; deprivation; debasement; adulteration; depravity; taint. See Depravity. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'corruption'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandon,
- abandonment,
- abjection,
- abomination,
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- adulteration,
- alienation,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anagram,
- antiphrasis,
- atrocity,
- bad,
- bane,
- barbarism,
- bastardizing,
- befouling,
- befoulment,
- biodegradability,
- biodegradation,
- blight,
- brainwashing,
- breakup,
- bribery,
- bribery and corruption,
- bribing,
- cacoepy,
- cacology,
- calembour,
- carrion,
- college of Laputa,
- colloquialism,
- contamination,
- corrosion,
- corruptedness,
- corruptness,
- counterindoctrination,
- criminality,
- crookedness,
- crying evil,
- cutting,
- damage,
- dandruff,
- debasement,
- decadence,
- decadency,
- decay,
- decomposition,
- defilement,
- degeneracy,
- degenerateness,
- degeneration,
- degradability,
- degradation,
- demoralization,
- depravation,
- depravedness,
- depravity,
- despoliation,
- destruction,
- detriment,
- deviousness,
- dilapidation,
- dilution,
- dishonesty,
- dishonor,
- disintegration,
- disorganization,
- dissoluteness,
- dissolution,
- doctoring,
- envenoming,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- evasiveness,
- evil,
- excrement,
- false coloring,
- feloniousness,
- festering,
- filth,
- fortifying,
- foul matter,
- fouling,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- furfur,
- gammacism,
- gangrene,
- graft,
- grievance,
- harm,
- havoc,
- hurt,
- ill,
- improbity,
- impropriety,
- indirection,
- indoctrination,
- infection,
- infelicity,
- injury,
- jeu de mots,
- lacing,
- lambdacism,
- localism,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- malapropism,
- mess,
- metagram,
- mildew,
- mischief,
- misconstruction,
- misdirection,
- misguidance,
- misinformation,
- misinstruction,
- misinterpretation,
- misknowledge,
- misleading,
- mispronunciation,
- misrepresentation,
- missaying,
- misspeaking,
- misteaching,
- misusage,
- misuse,
- mold,
- moral pollution,
- moral turpitude,
- muck,
- mucus,
- mystification,
- mytacism,
- obfuscation,
- obscenity,
- obscurantism,
- obscuration,
- ordure,
- outrage,
- oxidation,
- oxidization,
- palindrome,
- paralambdacism,
- pararhotacism,
- paronomasia,
- perversion,
- play on words,
- poison,
- poisoning,
- pollution,
- profligacy,
- prostitution,
- pun,
- punning,
- pus,
- putrid matter,
- reindoctrination,
- reprobacy,
- resolution,
- rhotacism,
- rot,
- rottenness,
- rust,
- scurf,
- scuz,
- shadiness,
- shiftiness,
- slang,
- slanting,
- slime,
- slipperiness,
- smut,
- snot,
- solecism,
- sophistry,
- sordes,
- spiking,
- spoilage,
- spoonerism,
- straining,
- subornation,
- subversion,
- suppuration,
- taboo word,
- the worst,
- torturing,
- toxin,
- trickiness,
- turpitude,
- unconscientiousness,
- underhandedness,
- ungrammaticism,
- unsavoriness,
- unscrupulousness,
- unstraightforwardness,
- venom,
- vexation,
- vitiation,
- vulgarism,
- watering,
- woe,
- wordplay,
- wrong