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corrupt
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corrupt \Cor*rupt"\ (k?r-r?pt"), v. i. To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot. --Bacon. To become vitiated; to lose purity or goodness.
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' Corrupt ' is a 1999 film starring Ice-T and Silkk The Shocker .
WordNet
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adj. lacking in integrity; "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government" [ant: incorrupt ] not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive [syn: crooked ] [ant: straight ] containing errors ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from Old French corropt "unhealthy, corrupt; uncouth" (of language), and directly from Latin corruptus , past participle of corrumpere "to destroy; spoil," figuratively "corrupt, seduce, bribe," from com- , intensive prefix (see com- ), + rup- ...
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.