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corrupt

/kɚˈʌpt/

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What does corrupt mean?

adjective

  1. Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
  2. In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
  3. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
More meanings (6)

adjective

  1. In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

verb

  1. To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
  2. To introduce errors; to place into an invalid state.
  3. To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify.
  4. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
  5. (archaic) To become putrid, tainted, or otherwise impure; to putrefy; to rot.

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IPA pronunciation

/kɚˈʌpt/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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I have heard it said the fittest time to corrupt a man’s wife is when she’s fallen out with her husband.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
Contact with an evil man sometimes suffices to corrupt a good action and to cause evil things to spring from it.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
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So that he used the clerks and under-officers like servants, as they were, exposing their corrupt practices, and instructing their ignorance.
PlutarchPlutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and RomansProject Gutenberg ebook #674
Yet they scruple not to goad their bullocks, beat them, half starve them, and let their gaping wounds fester and become corrupt.
James InglisSport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo PlanterProject Gutenberg ebook #10818
Again, shall the privilege of the author extend to irreligious and immoral works, calculated only to corrupt the heart, and obscure the understanding?
P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) ProudhonWhat is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of GovernmentProject Gutenberg ebook #360