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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Corrupt \Cor*rupt"\ (k?r-r?pt"), v. i. 1. To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. To become vitiated; to lose purity or goodness. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Corrupt \Cor*rupt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Corrupted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Corrupting}.] 1. To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy. [1913 Webster] 2. To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile. [1913 Webster] Evil communications corrupt good manners. --1. Cor. xv. 33. [1913 Webster] 3. To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe. [1913 Webster] Heaven is above all yet; there sits a Judge That no king can corrupt. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text. [1913 Webster] He that makes an ill use of it [language], though he does not corrupt the fountains of knowledge, . . . yet he stops the pines. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 5. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless. [1913 Webster] Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt. --Matt. vi. 19. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Corrupt \Cor*rupt`\ (k?r-r?pt"), a. [L. corruptus, p. p. of corrumpere to corrupt; cor- + rumpere to break. See {Rupture}.] 1. Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound. [1913 Webster] Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them. --Knolles. [1913 Webster] 2. Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges. [1913 Webster] At what ease Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt To swear against you. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: corrupt adj 1: lacking in integrity; "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government" [ant: {incorrupt}] 2: not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive [syn: {crooked}, {corrupt}] [ant: {square}, {straight}] 3: containing errors or alterations; "a corrupt text"; "spoke a corrupted version of the language" [syn: {corrupt}, {corrupted}] 4: touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic" [syn: {corrupt}, {tainted}] v 1: corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals" [syn: {corrupt}, {pervert}, {subvert}, {demoralize}, {demoralise}, {debauch}, {debase}, {profane}, {vitiate}, {deprave}, {misdirect}] 2: make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; "This judge can be bought" [syn: {bribe}, {corrupt}, {buy}, {grease one's palms}] 3: place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation" [syn: {defile}, {sully}, {corrupt}, {taint}, {cloud}] 4: alter from the original [syn: {corrupt}, {spoil}]