Corrupt — Defs

01 a. Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

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.

02 v. t. 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

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.

03 v. i. To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.