Corrupt /(k?r-r?pt")/

1. Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

   Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them.

2. Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges.

   At what ease Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt To swear against you.

3. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.

imp. & p. p. Corrupted; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.

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