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corrupt

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1. corrupt - Adjective

2. corrupt - Verb

3. corrupt - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges.

Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.

To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.

To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile.

To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe.

To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text.

To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.

To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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