CORRUPT
\kəɹˈʌpt], \kəɹˈʌpt], \k_ə_ɹ_ˈʌ_p_t]\
Definitions of CORRUPT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; "This judge can be bought"
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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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touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"
By Princeton University
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make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; "This judge can be bought"
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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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touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
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Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges.
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Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.
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To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.
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To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile.
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To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe.
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To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text.
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To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
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To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
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To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness.
By Oddity Software
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To injure; spoil; make impure; bribe; to debase; to pervert.
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Depraved; putrid; spoiled; abounding in errors; open to bribery.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To make putrid: to defile: to debase: to bribe.
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To rot: to lose purity.
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Putrid: depraved: defiled: not genuine: full of errors.
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CORRUPTNESS, CORRUPTER.
By Daniel Lyons
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Corruptness.
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Putrid; depraved; full of errors.
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To become corrupted.
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To make putrid; spoil; debase; bribe.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Corruptness.
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To subject to decay; spoil; putrefy; vitiate; deprave; pollute; pervert, as by bribery.
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Decomposing; tainted; putrid.
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Given to bribery; dishonest; depraved.
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Corrupter, corruptor.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Thomas Sheridan
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