Corrupt

Definition of Corrupt

Cor`rupt` Pronunciation: k?r-r?pt´

a.	1.	Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound. Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them. - Knolles.
	2.	Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges. At what ease Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt To swear against you. - Shak.
	3.	Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.
v. t.	1.	To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy. [imp. & p. p. Corrupted; p. pr. & vb. n. Corrupting.]
	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.
v. i.	1.	To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
	2.	To become vitiated; to lose purity or goodness.

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