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Meaning Of Corrupt

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



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