2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Corrupt \Cor*rupt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Corrupted}; p. pr &
vb n. {Corrupting}.]
1. To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to
make putrid; to putrefy.
2. To change from good to bad to vitiate; to deprave; to
pervert; to debase; to defile.
Evil communications corrupt good manners. --1. Cor.
xv 33.
3. To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as to
corrupt a judge by a bribe.
Heaven is above all yet there sits a Judge That no
king can corrupt. --Shak.
4. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations;
to falsify; as to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred
text.
He that makes an ill use of it [language], though he
does not corrupt the fountains of knowledge, . . .
yet he stops the pines. --Locke.
5. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth,
where moth and rust doth corrupt. --Matt. vi
19.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
corrupted
adj 1: containing errors or alterations; "a corrupt text"; "spoke a
corrupted version of the language" [syn: {corrupt}]
2: ruined in character or quality [syn: {debased}, {vitiated}]
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