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corrupt (adjective), more corrupt, most corrupt
Unsound or rotten as if something is broken down or ruined: "The corrupt city officials looked the other way when public workers were taking bribes."
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corrupt, corrupts; corrupted; corrupting (verbs)
1. To destroy or subvert the honesty or integrity of.
2. To ruin morally; to pervert.
3. To taint; to contaminate.
4. To cause to become rotten; to spoil.
5. To change the original form of; for example, a text.
6. In Computer Science: To damage (data) in a file or on a disk.
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(Greek: pollution, stain, contamination; to pollute, to defile, to corrupt)
(Latin: crooked, crookedness; perverted, vicious, wicked; borrowed through Old French depraver or directly from Latin depravare, "to corrupt"; from de, "completely" + pravus, "crooked")