Definitions for corrupt
kəˈrʌptcor·rupt

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. corruptadjective

   lacking in integrity

   "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government"

2. crooked, corruptadjective

   not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

3. corrupt, corruptedadjective

   containing errors or alterations

   "a corrupt text"; "spoke a corrupted version of the language"

4. corrupt, taintedverb

   touched by rot or decay

   "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"

5. corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirectverb

   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. bribe, corrupt, buy, grease one's palmsverb

   make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence

   "This judge can be bought"

7. defile, sully, corrupt, taint, cloudverb

   place under suspicion or cast doubt upon

   "sully someone's reputation"

8. corrupt, spoilverb

   alter from the original

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. corruptverb

   To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.

   Don't you dare corrupt my son with those disgusting pictures!

2. corruptadjective

   In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.

   The Government here is corrupt, so we'll emigrate to escape them.

3. corruptadjective

   With lots of errors in it; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.

4. corruptadjective

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

   Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them.

5. Etymology: From corrupten, from corruptus, past participle of corrumpo, from com- + rumpere.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Corruptadjective

   Vitious; tainted with wickedness; without integrity.

   Etymology: from corrupt.

   Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying. Eph. iv. 29.

   Corrupt, corrupt, and tainted in desire. William Shakespeare, M. W. of Winds.

   These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness
   Harbour more craft, and more corrupter ends,
   Than twenty silky ducking observants. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   Some, who have been corrupt in their morals, have yet been infinitely solicitous to have their children piously brought up. Robert South, Sermons.

2. To CORRUPTverb

   Etymology: corrumpo corruptus, Latin.

   1. To turn from a sound to a putrescent state; to infect.2. To deprave; to destroy integrity; to vitiate; to bribe.

   I fear lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 2 Cor. xi. 3.

   Even what things they naturally know, in those very things, as hearts void of reason, they corrupted themselves. Jude, v. 10.

   Evil communications corrupt good manners. 1 Cor. xv. 33.

   All that have miscarried
   By underhand, corrupted, foul injustice. William Shakespeare, Richard III.

   I have heard it said, the fittest time to corrupt a man’s wife, is when she’s fallen out with her husband. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   But stay, I smell a man of middle earth;
   With tryal fire touch me his finger-end;
   If he be chaste, the flame will back descend,
   And turn him to no pain; but if he start,
   It is the flesh of a corrupted heart. William Shakespeare, M. W. of Windsor.

   Language being the conduit whereby men convey their knowledge, he that makes an ill use of it, though he does not corrupt the fountains of knowledge, which are in things, yet he stops the pipes. John Locke.

   Hear the black trumpet through the world proclaim,
   That not to be corrupted is the shame. Alexander Pope.

   3. To spoil; to do mischief.

3. To Corruptverb

   To become putrid; to grow rotten; to putrefy.

   The aptness or propension of air or water to corrupt or putrefy, no doubt, is to be found before it break forth into manifest effects of diseases, blasting, or the like. Francis Bacon.

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1. corrupt

   Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted in a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain. Corruption may involve many activities which include bribery, influence peddling and the embezzlement and it may also involve practices which are legal in many countries. Political corruption occurs when an office-holder or other governmental employee acts with an official capacity for personal gain. Corruption is most common in kleptocracies, oligarchies, narco-states, and mafia states.Corruption and crime are endemic sociological occurrences which appear with regular frequency in virtually all countries on a global scale in varying degrees and proportions. Each individual nation allocates domestic resources for the control and regulation of corruption and the deterrence of crime. Strategies which are undertaken in order to counter corruption are often summarized under the umbrella term anti-corruption. Additionally, global initiatives like the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 16 also have a targeted goal which is supposed to substantially reduce corruption in all of its forms.

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1. corrupt

   Corrupt generally refers to being dishonest, unethical, or fraudulent, often involving bribery or other forms of illicit gain. It can also mean to change, damage, or ruin something from its original state or purity. This term can be applied to people, systems, data, etc.

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1. Corruptadjective

   changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound

2. Corruptadjective

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

3. Corruptadjective

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

4. Corruptverb

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

5. Corruptverb

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

6. Corruptverb

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

7. Corruptverb

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

8. Corruptverb

   to waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless

9. Corruptverb

   to become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot

10. Corruptverb

    to become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness

11. Etymology: [L. corruptus, p. p. of corrumpere to corrupt; cor- + rumpere to break. See Rupture.]

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1. Corrupt

   "Corrupt" was originally intended as the second Angel episode, but the production was abandoned, and instead "Lonely Hearts" was written and produced.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Corrupt

   kor-upt′, v.t. to make putrid: to defile: to mar: to debase: to bribe.—v.i. to rot: to lose purity.—adj. putrid: depraved: defiled: not genuine: full of errors.—ns. Corrupt′er; Corruptibil′ity, Corrupt′ibleness.—adj. Corrupt′ible, liable to be corrupted.—adv. Corrupt′ibly.—ns. Corrup′tion, rottenness: putrid matter: impurity: bribery; Corrup′tionist, one who defends or who practises corruption.—adj. Corrupt′ive, having the quality of corrupting.—adv. Corrupt′ly.—n. Corrupt′ness. [L. cor, inten., and rumpĕre, ruptum, to break.]

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   The numerical value of corrupt in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

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Examples of corrupt in a Sentence

1. Metropolitan Police:

   We are going to turn all those stones over, we’re going to come to the right conclusions and we’ll be ruthless about rooting out those who corrupt our integrity. You have my absolute assurance on that.

2. Congressman John Lewis of Georgia:

   I believe - Itruly believe - the time to begin impeachment proceedings against this president has come, todelay or to do otherwise will betray the foundation of our democracy. CLICK HERE TO GET THE OPINION NEWSLETTER Are you confused yet ? If so, we dont blame you. If you left town for the week, you may be wondering what the hell is going on exactly. Impeachment ? For years, they told you that Donald Trump was going to be impeached for colluding with Russia, spying for Putin. Then it turned out Donald Trump didnt do that. The story evaporated into dust and seemed to blow away. Then just a few days ago, they were grumbling about impeachment again, and they dragged in Corey Lewandowski. Remember Corey Lewandowski ? They brought Corey Lewandowski to Capitol Hill to make their case. That didnt go well at all. Rep. Nadler You, D-N.Y., House Judiciary Committee chairman : And so we ask you, is it correct that as reported in the Mueller report on June 19th, 2017, you met alone in the Oval Office with the president ? Corey Lewandowski, former Donald Trump campaign manager : Did you read the exact language of the report ? I dont have it available to me. Nadler You : I dont think I need to do that. I have limited time. Did you meet alone with the President on that date ? Lewandowski : Congressman, Id like you to refresh my memory by providing a copy of the report so I can follow along. Nadler You : You dont have a copy with you ? Lewandowski I dont have a copy of the report, congressman. Nadler You dont have any independent recollection of whether you met with the President on that date. Lewandowski : Congressman, Im just trying to find in the Mueller report where it states that. Nadler You : Well, you have it in front of you. I gave you the page number. Corey Lewandowski : We are on Page 90, is it, sir ? Unidentified male : Mr. Chairman, youve got to the clock. Nadler You : No, I dont have to start the clock. Nadler You is filibustering. It didnt take much for Chairman Nadler to collapse live on C - SPAN -- pretty embarrassing. Youd think at some point, Democrats might just decide to run a real presidential campaign in 2020 and beat Donald Trump that way, just like in a democracy. It would have to be more effective than what theyre doing now, and the numbers show it. As of this morning, Donald Trump Trumps approval rating was the highest it has been since the inauguration. But no, Democrat dont want to wait until the next election. They dont want to wait until November. Politics takes too long, and it leaves too much to chance. The risk of democracy is voters might not agree with you. Hillary Clinton learned that the hard way in 2016. And the one thing Democrats dont want to do is to repeat that. Better to remove your opponents by force, if you can. Which brings us to the latest question of impeachment : What exactly is this about ? Sorry to laugh in the middle of this -- weve spent all day trying to figure out what is the impeachment story. Its about Ukraine. Its less than a week old. And so you might be forgiven for not understanding why would the president be impeached for a story that the Democrats literally cant explain ? What did the president do wrong ? Were going to do our best to tell you the case that theyre making. And honestly, as we said, its confusing and not all that interesting. Within a sentence, here is what theyre saying. Theyre saying that in a phone call with the president of Ukraine, Donald Trump threatened to delay a $ 400 million military aid package to Ukraine, unless the Ukrainian government agreed to investigate possible criminal activity involving Joe Bidens son. Why Joe Bidens son ? Well for five years, Joe Bidens son, Joe Bidens, it turns out, was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to serve on the board of a Ukrainian gas company. Why would Joe Bidens son be on the board of a Ukrainian gas company ? Joe Bidens had no experience in the energy business. Joe Bidens didnt speak the relevant language. Joe Bidens apparently had no experience whatsoever in the region. It turns out at that very moment, Joe Biden was President Obamas point man for Ukraine. Oh. So at a certain point during this saga, the gas company in question was investigated. And then in 2016, the Ukrainian prosecutor overseeing that investigation was fired. Apparently, he was fired under pressure from Joe Biden. Now to the layman, that looks a lot like corruption. What does it have to do with the president being impeached ? Well, the accusation is that Donald Trump suggested that that squelched investigation deserved a second look. And Democrats say that suggestion was an impeachable offense. Are you following this ? Of course, there are plenty of other reasons that the U.S. might not want to send $ 400 million to Ukraine. Its a notoriously corrupt country, for one thing. What do we get out of it, is another. And by the way, sending military aid to Ukraine may please the neocons in CNN -- Bill Kristol was strongly for it -- but it also greatly increases the chances of conflict with Russia. And of course, that would mean nuclear conflict potentially. Whats the point of that, exactly ? Nobody has bothered to explain why sending $ 400 million in military aid to Ukraine is in the interest of the United States. They havent even thought to explain that. Theyre too busy yelling about impeachment. And theyre doing it with all the hysterical intensity that has become the hallmark of the modern left. They have a lot of energy. Too bad, none of it is focused on the countrys real problems, and there are a lot of them. We dont want to go through the same litany again, but we will hit on just a couple because theyre worth mentioning. Our national debt is exploding. And that includes credit card debt, by the way. Personal debt at Donald Trumps approval rating ever measured. We have a war in Afghanistan that we cant seem to win or end. Our towns outside the big cities are being decimated and desiccated by opioids and suicide. If you havent been there, drive through and take a look for yourself. We have basically an open border with Mexico. Tech companies trying to control our freedom of speech. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP In many ways, our country is on the wrong track, and people know it. Everybody knows it, Democrats and Republicans. But instead of trying to fix any of that, Democrats want to spend the next year explaining -- and they plan to -- why it was perfectly fair for Joe Bidens neer-do-well sonto get 600 grand a year from Ukrainian oligarchs. Thats totally fine. But its somehow criminal for Donald Trump to ask about that. Thats the message. Good luck with that. Hard to imagine many voters will be impressed by it. Adapted from Tucker Carlsons monologue from.

3. Donald Trump:

   It’s very corrupt, and we have to be able to get our voice out and this will be a way of getting our voice out loud and clear, i truly believe we have far more than 50% of the public of the people of this country—much more than 50%.

4. Democrat Adam Schiff:

   You might say that's all OK, you might say that's just what you need to do to win. But I don't think it's OK. I think it's immoral. I think it's unethical. I think it's unpatriotic and, yes, I think it's corrupt - and evidence of collusion.

5. Kamal Hamdan:

   This confessional system is not only corrupt. It is built on vested interests by all the sects (whose leaders) keep their grip on their people... The politicians have devoured Lebanon.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=corrupt
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Corrupt
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=corrupt
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupt
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corrupt
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=corrupt
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=corrupt