Corrupt
Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges.
Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.
To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.
To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile.
To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe.
To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text.
To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness.
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Corrupt Quotations
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
Thomas Jefferson
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Khalil Gibran
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund Burke
Corrupt Translations
corrupt in German is bestechlich, verdorben
corrupt in Italian is corrotto
corrupt in Latin is vitiosus, inficio infeci infectum, constupro
corrupt in Norwegian is fordervet, korrupt
corrupt in Spanish is adulterar
corrupt in Swedish is skada
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