[1215] corrupt

[보카길라잡이]

adj.

1. Marked by immorality and perversion; depraved.
2. Venal; dishonest: a corrupt mayor.
3. Containing errors or alterations, as a text: a corrupt translation.
4. Archaic. Tainted; putrid.

v. cor·rupt·ed, cor·rupt·ing, cor·rupts
v. tr.

1. To destroy or subvert the honesty or integrity of.
2. To ruin morally; pervert.
3. To taint; contaminate.
4. To cause to become rotten; spoil.
5. To change the original form of (a text, for example).
6. Computer Science. To damage (data) in a file or on a disk.

v. intr.

To become corrupt.

corrupt

adj 1: lacking in integrity; "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government" [ant: incorrupt]

2: not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive [syn: crooked] [ant: straight]

3: containing errors or alterations; "a corrupt text"; "spoke a corrupted version of the language" [syn: corrupted]

4: touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic" [syn: tainted]

v 1: corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals" [syn: pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect]

2: alter from the original [syn: spoil]

3: make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; "This judge can be bought" [syn: bribe, buy, grease one's palms]

4: place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation" [syn: defile, sully, taint, cloud]

 -  corruptible

adj : capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer" [syn: bribable, dishonest, purchasable, venal]

 -  corruption

n 1: lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain [syn: corruptness] [ant: incorruptness]

2: in a state of progressive putrefaction [syn: putrescence, putridness, rottenness]

3: decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)

4: moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels; its opium parlors; its depravity" [syn: degeneracy, depravity]

5: destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence" [syn: subversion]

6: inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering"

[마스터현태]

corrupt 1.타락한 퇴폐한 부도덕한 사악한

[정사랑]

타락한, 부패한

[시가스팔공]

타락한, 부페한