corrupt
adjective
1. lacking in integrity
- humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation
- a corrupt and incompetent city government
Similar word(s): corrupted, debased, vitiated, bribable, corruptible, dishonest, purchasable, venal, depraved, perverse, perverted, reprobate, dirty, shoddy, sordid, praetorian, pretorian, putrid, immoral
2. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
Similar word(s): dishonest, dishonorable, unlawful, sneaky, underhand, underhanded, crooked
3. containing errors or alterations
- a corrupt text
- spoke a corrupted version of the language
Similar word(s): imperfect, corrupted
4. touched by rot or decay
- `corrupt' is archaic
Similar word(s): stale, tainted
Sentences with corrupt as an adjective:
- The government here is corrupt, so we'll emigrate to escape them.
- The text of the manuscript is corrupt.
- It turned out that the program was corrupt - that's why it wouldn't open.
verb
1. corrupt morally or by gluttony or sensuality
- Socrates was accused of corrupting young men
- corrupt the morals
Similar word(s): debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate
Definition categories: social, alter, change, modify
2. make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
Definition categories: possession, pay
3. place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
Similar word(s): cloud, defile, sully, taint
Definition categories: contact, deflower, impair, mar, spoil, vitiate
4. alter from the original
Similar word(s): spoil
Definition categories: change, modify
Sentences with corrupt as a verb:
- Don't you dare corrupt my son with those disgusting pictures!
- to corrupt language, or a holy text