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corrupt

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corrupt in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
    "This judge can be bought"
    bribe  corrupt  buy  grease one's palms 
  2. place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
    "sully someone's reputation"
    defile  sully  corrupt  taint  cloud 
  3. alter from the original
    corrupt  spoil 
  4. 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
  1. lacking in integrity
    "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government"
    corrupt 
  2. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
    crooked  corrupt 
  3. containing errors or alterations
    "a corrupt text"; "spoke a corrupted version of the language"
    corrupt  corrupted 
  4. touched by rot or decay
    "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"
    corrupt  tainted 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University