corrupt

About 5.71 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
2. adjective In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.

   The government here is corrupt, so we'll emigrate to escape them.

3. adjective Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.

   The text of the manuscript is corrupt.

4. adjective In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
5. verb To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.

   Don't you dare corrupt my son with those disgusting pictures!

6. verb To become putrid, tainted, or otherwise impure; to putrefy; to rot.
7. verb To introduce errors; to place into an invalid state.

   Unplugging a flash drive without dismounting it first can corrupt the data stored on the drive.

8. verb To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify.

   to corrupt language, or a holy text

Similar words

bribe bribable purchasable buy sneaky spoil underhand underhanded perverse sold-out

Often followed by

and practices the or officials in practice nature as

Word family

corrupted corrupter corrupters corruptest corruptibilities corruptibility corruptible corruptibly corrupting corruptly