# corrupt

Pronunciation: say "kuh-RUPT" /kəˈɹʌpt/

## Adjective

1. Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain, especially by accepting bribes.
   - Simple: Ready to act in dishonest ways for money or personal gain, often by taking bribes.
   - _The corrupt senator was convicted of accepting bribes from contractors._
   - _Investigators exposed a network of corrupt police officers._
3. Full of errors; not genuine or correct, or left in an invalid state.
   - Simple: Full of errors, or damaged so that it no longer works correctly.
   - _A software glitch left half the saved games corrupt and unplayable._
   - _The transmitted file arrived corrupt and refused to open._
5. In a morally debased state; degenerate or weak in moral character.
   - Simple: Having very low morals and acting in a wicked or shameful way.
   - _The empire's corrupt nobility cared only for indulgence and display._
   - _Witnesses described a corrupt and pitiless man who delighted in others' suffering._
7. In a putrid or spoiled state; tainted and unsound.
   - Simple: Gone bad, rotten, or unsafe to use.
   - _The sailors found the stored provisions corrupt after months at sea._
   - _Air from the corrupt swamp was blamed for the fever._

## Verb

2. To change someone or something from good to bad; to lead away from honest or moral behavior.
   - Simple: To change a person or thing from good to bad, especially in their morals or honesty.
   - _Years in office had corrupted his sense of right and wrong._
   - _Greed and ambition corrupt the values of those who hold power._
4. To introduce errors into something, or place it into an invalid state.
   - Simple: To damage data or a file so that it contains errors and no longer works.
   - _Removing the drive too early can corrupt the data still being written._
   - _A faulty update corrupted the configuration on every machine._
6. To debase or make impure by altering it or adding things; to falsify.
   - Simple: To spoil something by changing it or adding bad things, or to make it fake.
   - _Counterfeiters corrupt the coinage by blending in lesser metals._
   - _A careless scribe had corrupted the original text with his own insertions._
8. To waste, spoil, or use up something until it becomes worthless.
   - Simple: To spoil or use up something until it has no value left.
   - _Rust and damp will corrupt iron tools left in an open shed._
   - _Years of reckless spending had corrupted the estate beyond recovery._

## Verb

9. To become putrid, tainted, or impure; to rot or putrefy. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: To go bad and rot, like meat left out in the heat too long.
   - _In the heat, even well-cured fish will corrupt within a week._
   - _The physician warned that the wound might corrupt if left unclean._

## Origin

From Middle English corrupten, from Latin corruptus, the past participle of corrumpō ("to destroy, ruin, spoil, corrupt, bribe"), formed from com- ("together") plus rumpō ("to break in pieces").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/corrupt (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).