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corrupt

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. 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" [syn: pervert , subvert , demoralize ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corrupt \Cor*rupt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Corrupted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Corrupting .] 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. ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "contaminate, impair the purity of," from Latin corruptus , past participle of corrumpere (see corrupt (adj.)). Late 14c. as "pervert the meaning of," also "putrefy." Related: Corrupted ; corrupting .

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a corrupt regime (= dishonest ) ▪ Much of the aid that the Americans sent lined the pockets of his corrupt regime. corrupt (= one who is not honest ) ▪ They make quiet deals with corrupt politicians. COLLOCATIONS ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A person who is corrupt is or has been spiritually or morally impure, or is acting/ has acted illegally. By extension, the term is applied to a database or program being made unreliable by errors or alterations. Corrupt may also refer to: Corrupt (1983 ...

Usage examples of corrupt.

Consequently, as the being of those accidents could be corrupted while the substance of the bread and wine was present, so likewise they can be corrupted now that the substance has passed away.

Congress passed the first of a series of acts to exclude from the mails publications designed to defraud the public or corrupt its morals.

Many years afterward, reflecting on his friend Adams and the charge that he had been corrupted by his years in Europe, Rush wrote that, in fact, there had been no change at all.

Timothy Pickering spread the rumor that to secure his reelection Adams had struck a corrupt bargain with the Republicans.

He had believed everything was lost, but now that the Mage-Imperator had recaptured the minds and hearts of all the corrupted soldiers, he was confident the Adar could unify them into a single crew again.

A city surrounded by the River Hebrus, and six leagues to the south of Adrianople, received from its double wall the Greek name of Didymoteichos, insensibly corrupted into Demotica and Dimot.

Avery had been saddled with in the aftermath of her college fiasco as a corrupt, antiestablishment, rabble-rousing zealot who wanted to stick it to the system.

It was an exorcism, and a very old one, in Aramaic and Latin and corrupt Coptic.

Even when in after days, as the histories reveal, many of the Eldar in Middle-earth became corrupted, and their hearts darkened by the shadow that lies upon Arda, seldom is any tale told of deeds of lust among them.

I shall be pleased to accompany you, purely to ensure that you do not corrupt his morals with your despicable Arminian views.

The testing process itself can also be corrupt as seen with the case of International Biotest Laboratories in the U.

The weapons are sealed in containers, of course, and if the Amsterdam customs are unaware of this they must be the worst, the blindest, or the most corrupt and avaricious in Europe.

Meanwhile, back in Egypt, Bloch had corrupted Hassan, who was ready and willing to be corrupted.

The fact that she was sympathetic to Bonita Vista turned him off even more, and he wondered if everyone who had dealings with Bonita Vista was automatically corrupted.

Again, he thought that everyone Bonita Vista touched was somehow corrupted.