Crossword clues for corrupt
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Corrupt \Cor*rupt`\ (k?r-r?pt"), a. [L. corruptus, p. p. of corrumpere to corrupt; cor- + rumpere to break. See Rupture.]
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Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them.
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Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges.
At what ease Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt To swear against you.
--Shak. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.
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.
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To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile.
Evil communications corrupt good manners.
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3. To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe.
Heaven is above all yet; there sits a Judge That no king can corrupt.
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To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text.
He that makes an ill use of it [language], though he does not corrupt the fountains of knowledge, . . . yet he stops the pines.
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To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt.
--Matt. vi. 19.
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-, past participle stem of rumpere "to break" (see rupture (n.)). Related: Corruptly; corruptness.
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.
Wiktionary
1 In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals. 2 Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state. 3 In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound. v
1 (context transitive English) To make #Adjective; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert. 2 (context intransitive English) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot. 3 To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify. 4 To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
WordNet
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 or alterations; "a corrupt text"; "spoke a corrupted version of the language" [syn: corrupted]
touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic" [syn: tainted]
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, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect]
alter from the original [syn: spoil]
make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; "This judge can be bought" [syn: bribe, buy, grease one's palms]
place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation" [syn: defile, sully, taint, cloud]
Wikipedia
"Corrupt" was originally intended as the second Angel episode, but the production was abandoned, and instead " Lonely Hearts" was written and produced.
'Corrupt ' is a 1999 film starring Ice-T and Silkk The Shocker.
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 film), an Italian thriller film
- Corrupt (1999 film), an American crime film
- "Corrupt" (Angel), an unproduced television episode
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.