corrupt

corrupt is a 7-letter English word with 18 senses as adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 18 senses

Definitions

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

    Synonyms: spoil

12. verb. place under suspicion or cast doubt upon

    "sully someone's reputation"

    Synonyms: cloud, defile, sully, taint

13. verb. make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence

    "This judge can be bought"

    Synonyms: bribe, buy

14. verb. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality

    "debauch the young people with wine and women"

    "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"

    Synonyms: debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate

15. adjective. lacking in integrity

    "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"

    "a corrupt and incompetent city government"

16. adjective. touched by rot or decay

    "tainted bacon"

    "`corrupt' is archaic"

    Synonyms: tainted

17. adjective. containing errors or alterations

    "a corrupt text"

    "spoke a corrupted version of the language"

    Synonyms: corrupted

18. adjective. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

    Synonyms: crooked

Synonyms

spoil, cloud, defile, sully, taint, bribe, buy, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate, tainted, corrupted, crooked

Common word forms

corrupts, corrupted, corrupter, corruptly, corruptest, corruptful, corrupting, corruptless, corruptness

Words from these letters

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