Definition: alter from the original
Main entry: corrupt, defile, sully, taint, cloud
Definition: place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
Usage: sully someone's reputation
Main entry: grease one's palms, corrupt, bribe, buy
Definition: make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
Usage: This judge can be bought
Main entry: debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, corrupt, subvert, profane, misdirect, pervert, vitiate
Definition: corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
Usage: debauch the young people with wine and women; Socrates was accused of corrupting young men; Do school counselors subvert young children?; corrupt the morals
Main entry: corrupt
Definition: lacking in integrity
Usage: humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation; a corrupt and incompetent city government
Definition: touched by rot or decay
Usage: tainted bacon; `corrupt' is archaic
Main entry: corrupt, corrupted
Definition: containing errors or alterations
Usage: a corrupt text; spoke a corrupted version of the language
Definition: not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive