Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
- 2adjective
Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges.
- 3adjective
Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.
- 4transitive verb
To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.
- 5transitive verb
To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile.
- 6transitive verb
To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe.
- 7transitive verb
To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text.
- 8transitive verb
To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
- 9intransitive verb
To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
- 10intransitive verb
To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness.
- 11verb
alter from the original
Synonyms
- 12verb
place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
"sully someone's reputation"
- 13verb
make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
"This judge can be bought"
- 14verb
corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
"debauch the young people with wine and women"
"Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"
- 15adjective
lacking in integrity
"humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"
"a corrupt and incompetent city government"
- 16adjective
touched by rot or decay
"tainted bacon"
"`corrupt' is archaic"
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- 17adjective
containing errors or alterations
"a corrupt text"
"spoke a corrupted version of the language"
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- 18adjective
not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
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