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.
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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.
--1. Cor. xv. 3 -
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of corrupt English)
WordNet
adj. seducing into corrupt practices
harmful to the mind or morals; "corrupt judges and their corrupting influence"; "the vicious and degrading cult of violence" [syn: degrading]
that infects or taints [syn: contaminating]
Usage examples of "corrupting".
Then there will be no point in my presence, for I will have no further hope of corrupting you.
Thus he was immersed in news of evil throughout, and knew this was further corrupting him, but he could not resist it.
So you must get this man to implicate others, that the chain of extortion may continue and grow, in the end corrupting the Church as well as the individuals.
I had to give you a chance to show that I have done a proper job corrupting you.
He had succeeded in corrupting aspects of it, but the main part still stood for decency and order in the world, and so remained a problem.
The defendant is therefore innocent of the charge of corrupting, because he is in fact the one being corrupted.
The Forest had a history of corrupting anyone who could respond to it.
The Iezu can't feed on the rakh - or any other native species - so why waste effort corrupting them?
It delights in corrupting humanity, and will toy with its victims like a cat tortures prey.
You've sullied the name of my school and I will see that you find no engagement in this town for your corrupting talents and I'll make sure that Miss Netherton's influence will not aid you in any way in the future.
Then after a moment her head came up as she ended, " And I was accused of corrupting young minds.
That'll make you mind your p's and q's and stop you corrupting young girls.
The difficulty therefore which he apprehended there might be in corrupting this young wench, and the danger which would accrue to his character on the discovery, were such strong dissuasives, that it is probable he at first intended to have contented himself with the pleasing ideas which the sight of beauty furnishes us with.
But Phoenix was a corrupting influence, where hacker anarchy was eating away like digital acid at the underbelly of corporate propriety.
Thackeray, however, had already learned far more than enough about Kyrie, whom she roundly despised as an adult criminal corrupting minors, a "female Fagin.