Decomposing, or showing signs of decomposition; putrid; spoiled; tainted; vitiated.
Debased in character; depraved; perverted; infected with evil.
Dishonest; without integrity; guilty of dishonesty involving bribery, or a disposition to bribe or be bribed: as, corrupt practices; a corrupt judge.
Changed for the worse; debased or falsified by admixture, addition, or alteration; erroneous or full of errors: as, a corrupt text.
To injure; mar; spoil; destroy.
To vitiate physically; render unsound; taint or contaminate as with disease; decompose: as, to corrupt the blood.
To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; cause the decomposition of (an organic body), as by a natural process, accompanied by a fetid smell; change from a good to a bad physical condition, in any way.
To vitiate or deprave, in a moral sense; change from good to bad; infect with evil; pervert; debase.
To pervert or vitiate the integrity of; entice from allegiance, or from a good to an evil course of conduct; influence by a bribe or other wrong motive.
To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; infect with imperfections or errors; falsify; pervert: as, to corrupt language; to corrupt a text.
Synonyms Spoil, taint. Contaminate, deprave, demoralize. See taint, v. t.
To become putrid; putrefy; rot.
Synonyms Decay, Putrefy, etc. See rot.
Legally tainted, as by an act of attainder of treason or felony: said of the blood of one legally attainted. See corruption, 8.