corrupt
verb/kəˈrʌpt/
/kəˈrʌpt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they corrupt | /kəˈrʌpt/ /kəˈrʌpt/ |
| he / she / it corrupts | /kəˈrʌpts/ /kəˈrʌpts/ |
| past simple corrupted | /kəˈrʌptɪd/ /kəˈrʌptɪd/ |
| past participle corrupted | /kəˈrʌptɪd/ /kəˈrʌptɪd/ |
| -ing form corrupting | /kəˈrʌptɪŋ/ /kəˈrʌptɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] corrupt (somebody) to have a bad effect on somebody and make them behave in a way that is not honest or moral
- He was corrupted by power and ambition.
- the corrupting effects of great wealth
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- [transitive, often passive] corrupt something to change the original form of something, so that it is damaged or made less good in some way
- a corrupted form of Buddhism
- [transitive, intransitive] corrupt (something) (computing) to cause mistakes to appear in a computer file, etc. with the result that the information in it is no longer correct; (of a computer file, etc.) to start containing mistakes
- The program has somehow corrupted the system files.
- corrupted data
- The disk will corrupt if it is overloaded.
Word OriginMiddle English: from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpere ‘mar, bribe, destroy’, from cor- ‘altogether’ + rumpere ‘to break’.
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