Definitions of corrupt [əˈrʌpt]

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Definition of 'corrupt'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) corrupt
guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery:
a corrupt judge.

2.  corrupt
debased in character; depraved.

3.  corrupt
infected; tainted.

4.  corrupt
decayed; putrid.

5.  corrupt
made inferior by errors or alterations, as a text.

6. (v.t.) corrupt
to cause to be dishonest, disloyal, etc., esp. by bribery.

7.  corrupt
to lower morally; pervert:
to corrupt youth.

8.  corrupt
to infect; taint.

9.  corrupt
to make putrid or putrescent.

10.  corrupt
to alter (a language, text, etc.) for the worse; debase.

11. (v.i.) corrupt
to become corrupt.

Etymology: (1250–1300; ME (< AF) < L corruptus, ptp. of corrumpere to spoil, corrupt =cor-cor - +rumpere to break)

Definition of 'corrupt'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (adj) corrupt
lacking in integrity
"humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government"

2. (adj) crooked, corrupt
not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

3. (adj) corrupt, corrupted
containing errors or alterations
"a corrupt text"; "spoke a corrupted version of the language"

4. (verb) corrupt, tainted
touched by rot or decay
"tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"

5. (verb) corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect
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"

6. (verb) bribe, corrupt, buy, grease one's palms
make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
"This judge can be bought"

7. (verb) defile, sully, corrupt, taint, cloud
place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
"sully someone's reputation"

8. (verb) corrupt, spoil
alter from the original

Definition of 'corrupt'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (adjective) corrupt
dishonest or immoral
corrupt government officials; a corrupt lifestyle

2. corrupt
(of a computer file) damaged
corrupted files

3. (verb) corrupt
to make sb become dishonest or immoral
He had been corrupted by the promise of big money.

4. corrupt
(of a computer file) to damage
systems corrupted by viruses

Definition of 'corrupt'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) corrupt
changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound

2. (adj) corrupt
changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges

3. (adj) corrupt
abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt

4. (verb) corrupt
to change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy

5. (verb) corrupt
to change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile

6. (verb) corrupt
to draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe

7. (verb) corrupt
to debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text

8. (verb) corrupt
to waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless

9. (verb) corrupt
to become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot

10. (verb) corrupt
to become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness

Translation of 'corrupt'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to make or become evil or bad He was corrupted by the bad influence of two friends.
Afrikaans: korrupteer	Arabic: يُفسِد	Bulgarian: покварявам (се)
Brazilian: corromper	Czech: zkazit (se)	German: verderben
Danish: fordærve; ødelægge	Greek: διαφθείρω	Spanish: corromper
Estonian: moraalselt rikkuma	Farsi: گمراه کردن؛ هرزه شدن	Finnish: turmella
French: corrompre	Hebrew: לְהַשחִית	Hindi: भ्रष्ट हो जाना
Croatian: pokvariti	Hungarian: elront	Indonesian: menjadi jahat atau rusak
Icelandic: spilla	Italian: corrompere	Japanese: 堕落させる
Korean: 망가지다	Lithuanian: (su)gadinti, (su)gesti	Latvian: samaitāt; demoralizēt; uz
Malay: terpengaruh	Dutch: corrumperen	Norwegian: forderve, demoralisere, k
Polish: psuć, demoralizować	Persian: گمراه کردن؛ هرزه شدن	Pashto: فاسد ،چټلول، ككړه ول: فاس
Portuguese: corromper	Romanian: a corupe	Russian: развращать(ся)
Slovak: skaziť	Slovenian: pokvariti (se), podkupiti	Serbian: pokvaren
Swedish: [moraliskt] fördärva, gör	Thai: นำไปทางชั่ว	Turkish: ayar(tıl)mak, baştan çıka
Taiwanese: 使敗壞	Ukrainian: псувати(ся); розбещувати(	Urdu: خراب كرنا یا هونا، بگاڑنا
Vietnamese: tham nhũng	Chinese: 使败坏
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