Word Definition

Corrupt

  1. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
  2. To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
  3. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text.
  4. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.
  5. Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges.
  6. Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
  7. To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness.
  8. To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.
  9. To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe.
  10. To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile.