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Corrupted   /kərˈəptɪd/   Listen
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Corrupt  v. t.  (past & past part. corrupted; pres. part. corrupting)  
1.
To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.
2.
To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile. "Evil communications corrupt good manners."
3.
To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe. "Heaven is above all yet; there sits a Judge That no king can corrupt."
4.
To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text. "He that makes an ill use of it (language), though he does not corrupt the fountains of knowledge,... yet he stops the pines."
5.
To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless. "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt."


Corrupt  v. i.  
1.
To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
2.
To become vitiated; to lose purity or goodness.





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"Corrupted" Quotes from Famous Books



... brothels, and the honor Of women and all ancient pious customs Are quite forgotten now. The offices Of the Priori and Gonfalonieri Have been abolished. All the magistrates Are now his creatures. Liberty is dead. The very memory of all honest living Is wiped away, and even our Tuscan tongue Corrupted to ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
... work the doctor woe; And would excuse himself with many a gloze: But when he sees, he would the evil know, Argia will break faith with him, he shows, As soon as he shall from his threshold go. Nor prayer shall soften her, nor beauty fire: Corrupted will she be by ...
— Orlando Furioso • Lodovico Ariosto
... and the aspiration after good has often lent a strange power to evil. And sometimes, as at the Reformation, or French Revolution, when the upper classes of a so-called Christian country have become corrupted by priestcraft, by casuistry, by licentiousness, by despotism, the lower have risen up and re-asserted the natural sense of religion ...
— Philebus • Plato
... vol. iv. p. 201. Nothing turns on the actual names in these stories; they have been evidently much corrupted,—probably ...
— The Science of Fairy Tales - An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology • Edwin Sidney Hartland
... and misinformation. Terrorists recruit more effectively from populations whose information about the world is contaminated by falsehoods and corrupted by conspiracy theories. The distortions keep alive grievances and filter out facts that would challenge popular ...
— National Strategy for Combating Terrorism - September 2006 • United States


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