corrupt.
Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
Meaning & usage
Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
The government here is corrupt, so we'll emigrate to escape them.
Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
The text of the manuscript is corrupt.
It turned out that the program was corrupt - that's why it wouldn't open.
In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English corrupten, derived from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpō (“to destroy, ruin, injure, spoil, corrupt, bribe”), from com- (“together”) + rumpō (“to break in pieces”).
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!
To become putrid, tainted, or otherwise impure; to putrefy; to rot.
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.
To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify.
to corrupt language, or a holy text
to corrupt a book
To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English corrupten, derived from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpō (“to destroy, ruin, injure, spoil, corrupt, bribe”), from com- (“together”) + rumpō (“to break in pieces”).
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