Definition of corrupt
- a. - Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted;
vitiated; unsound.
- a. - Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth,
etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as,
corrupt language; corrupt judges.
- a. - Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text
of the manuscript is corrupt.
- v. t. - To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state;
to make putrid; to putrefy.
- v. t. - To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to
pervert; to debase; to defile.
- v. t. - To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as,
to corrupt a judge by a bribe.
- v. t. - To debase or render impure by alterations or
innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred
text.
- v. t. - To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
- v. i. - To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
- v. i. - To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness.