corrupt
Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
Adjective 4 meanings
Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
“The government here is corrupt, so we'll emigrate to escape them.”
Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
“The text of the manuscript is corrupt.”
In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
Verb 4 meanings
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 language, or a holy text”
To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
Etymology
From Middle English corrupten, derived from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpō (“to destroy, ruin, injure, spoil, corrupt, bribe”), from com- (“together”) + rumpō (“to break in pieces”).
Similar and opposite words
CORRUPT at a glance
CORRUPT has 7 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (C 3 + O 1 + R 1 + R 1 + U 1 + P 3 + T 1) and 14 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,572 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with corrupt
All rhymes- BANKRUPT16
- INTERRUPT11
- DISRUPT10
- ABRUPT10
- ERUPT7
- INCORRUPT13
- UNCORRUPT13
- IRRUPT8
- POUPT9
- PRERUPT11
Keep going
Related lists
Looking for a different word?
Type the letters you have and the Finder shows every word that fits.