adj.
- willing to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain.
▸evil or morally depraved.
- (of a text or a computer database or program) made unreliable by errors or alterations.
- archaic rotten or putrid.
v.
- make corrupt:
he was corrupted by power.
- debase (a text, database, etc.) by introducing errors.
- archaic infect or contaminate.
Derivative
- corrupter n.
- corruptibility n.
- corruptible adj.
- corruptive adj.
- corruptly adv.
Etymology
ME: from L. corrupt-, corrumpere ‘mar, bribe, destroy’, from cor- ‘altogether’ + rumpere ‘to break’.