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.