corruption in WordNet English dictionary

1. destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity
   "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence"
   corruption  subversion 
   
2. inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony)
   "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering"
   corruption 
   
3. lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
   corruptness  corruption 
   
4. moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
   "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"
   corruption  degeneracy  depravation  depravity  putrefaction 
   
5. decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
   corruption 
   
6. in a state of progressive putrefaction
   putrescence  putridness  rottenness  corruption