corrupt

CORRUPT, verb transitive [Latin , to break.] Literally, to break, separate or dissolve. Hence, 1. To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to separate the component parts of a body, as by a natural process, which accompanied by a fetid smell. 2. To vitiate or deprave; to change from good to bad. Evil communications corrupt good manners. 1 Corinthians 15:33. 3. To waste, spoil or consume. Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt Matthew 6:19. 4. To defile or pollute. Exodus 32:7. 5. To entice from good and allure to evil. 2 Corinthians 11:3. 6. To pervert; to break, disobey or make void. Malachi 2:3. 7. To pervert or vitiate integrity; to bribe; as, to corrupt a judge. 8. To debase or render impure, by alterations or innovations; as, to corrupt language. 9. To pervert; to falsify; to infect with errors; as, to corrupt the sacred text. CORRUPT, verb intransitive 1. To become putrid; to putrefy; to rot. Animal and vegetable substances speedily corrupt in a warm and moist air. 2. To become vitiated; to lose purity. CORRUPT, adjective [Latin] 1. Changed from a sound to a putrid state, as by natural decomposition. 2. Spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound; as corrupt air, or bread. 3. Depraved; vitiated; tainted with wickedness. They are corrupt; they have done abominable works. Psalms 14:1. The earth was corrupt before God. Genesis 6:11. 4. Debased; rendered impure; changed to a worse state; as corrupt language. 5. Not genuine; infected with errors or mistakes. The text is corrupt