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1. Tending to act dishonestly in exchange for money or other personal gain
   - crooked [informal], bent [Brit, informal]
    
2. Lacking in integrity
   "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government"
    
3. Containing errors or alterations
   "a corrupt text";
   - corrupted
    
4. [archaic] Touched by rot or decay
   "corrupt bacon";
   - tainted

1. Alter from the original to become worse or broken
   - spoil
    
2. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
   "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "corrupt the morals";
   - pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise [Brit], debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect
    
3. (crime) make illegal payments to in exchange for favours or influence
   "This judge can be corrupted";
   - bribe, buy, grease the palm of
    
4. (of someone's image or good reputation) damage, place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
   "corrupt someone's reputation";
   - defile, sully, taint, cloud, tarnish, soil, stain

Derived forms: corrupted, corrupter, corruptest, corrupting, corrupts

See also: bribable, corrupted, corruptible, corruption, corruptness, debased, depraved, dirty, dishonest, dishonorable [US], dishonourable [Brit, Cdn], honestness, honesty, immoral, imperfect, perverse, perverted, Praetorian, Pretorian, purchasable, putrid, reprobate, shoddy, sneaky, sold-out, sordid, stale, underhand, underhanded, unlawful, venal, vitiated

Type of: alter, change, deflower, impair, mar, modify, pay, pollute, spoil, vitiate

Antonym: incorrupt, straight

Encyclopedia: Corrupt