Corrupt (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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adjective
  1. guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
  2. debased in character; depraved; perverted; wicked; evil: a corrupt society.
  3. (of a text) made inferior by errors or alterations: Scholars compared the corrupt Alexandrian manuscript with a more reliable Greek translation.
  4. infected; tainted.
  5. decayed; putrid.
  6. relating to or designating computer code or stored data that contains errors: If the corrupt file won’t open, restore a previous save.
verb (used with object)
  1. to destroy the integrity of; cause to be dishonest, disloyal, etc., especially by bribery.
  2. to lower morally; pervert: to corrupt youth.
  3. to alter (a language, text, etc.) for the worse; debase.
  4. to mar; spoil.
  5. to infect; taint.
  6. to make putrid or putrescent.
  7. to introduce errors in (computer code or stored data) when saving, transmitting, or retrieving it: I downloaded some free modifications that corrupted the core program, so I can’t open it until I uninstall and reinstall the original version.
  8. (in historical use) to subject (an attainted person) to corruption of blood.
verb (used without object)
  1. to become corrupt.
adjective
  1. lacking in integrity; open to or involving bribery or other dishonest practices
  2. morally depraved
  3. putrid or rotten
  4. contaminated; unclean
  5. (of a text or manuscript) made meaningless or different in meaning from the original by scribal errors or alterations
  6. (of computer programs or data) containing errors
verb
  1. to become or cause to become dishonest or disloyal
  2. to debase or become debased morally; deprave
  3. to infect or contaminate; taint
  4. to cause to become rotten
  5. to alter (a text, manuscript, etc) from the original
  6. to introduce errors into (data or a program)
Corrupt (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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