corrupt
/kəˈɹʌpt/ verb C2- To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert. · Don't you dare corrupt my son with those disgusting pictures!
- To introduce errors; to place into an invalid state. · Unplugging a flash drive without dismounting it first can corrupt the data stored on the drive.
- To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify. · to corrupt a book
- To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
He/she/it corrupts · Past corrupted · Past participle corrupted · -ing form corrupting
Verb forms
- Base form
- corrupt
- He/she/it
- corrupts
- Past
- corrupted
- Past participle
- corrupted
- -ing form
- corrupting
From the library
“Who and what are you?” demanded Villefort, turning over a pile of papers, containing information relative to the prisoner, that a police agent had given to him on his entry, and that, already, in an hour’s time, had swelled to voluminous proportions, thanks to the corrupt espionage of which “the accused” is always made the victim.
“Old enough to be ambitious, but too young to be corrupt.
It appeared impossible to the baroness that a man of such delightfully pleasing manners should entertain evil designs against her; besides, the most corrupt minds only suspect evil when it would answer some interested end—useless injury is repugnant to every mind.
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