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corrupt
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corrupt in WordNet English dictionary
verb
make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
"This judge can be bought"
bribe
corrupt
buy
grease one's palms
place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
"sully someone's reputation"
defile
sully
corrupt
taint
cloud
alter from the original
corrupt
spoil
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"
corrupt
pervert
subvert
demoralize
demoralise
debauch
debase
profane
vitiate
deprave
misdirect
adjective
lacking in integrity
"humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government"
corrupt
not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
crooked
corrupt
containing errors or alterations
"a corrupt text"; "spoke a corrupted version of the language"
corrupt
corrupted
touched by rot or decay
"tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"
corrupt
tainted
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University