Corrupt

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness.

II. Corrupt ·vt To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

III. Corrupt ·adj Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

IV. Corrupt ·adj Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.

V. Corrupt ·vt To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe.

VI. Corrupt ·vi To become putrid or tainted; to Putrefy; to Rot.

VII. Corrupt ·vt To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to Putrefy.

VIII. Corrupt ·vt To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to Falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text.

IX. Corrupt ·adj Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, ·etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges.

X. Corrupt ·vt To change from good to bad; to Vitiate; to Deprave; to Pervert; to Debase; to Defile.