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