corrupt

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Marked by immorality and perversion; depraved.
2. adj. Venal; dishonest: a corrupt mayor.
3. adj. Containing errors or alterations, as a text: a corrupt translation.
4. adj. Archaic Tainted; putrid.
5. v. To destroy or subvert the honesty or integrity of.
6. v. To ruin morally; pervert.
7. v. To taint; contaminate.
8. v. To cause to become rotten; spoil.
9. v. To change the original form of (a text, for example).
10. v. Computer Science To damage (data) in a file or on a disk.
11. v. To become corrupt.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To injure; mar; spoil; destroy.
2. To vitiate physically; render unsound; taint or contaminate as with disease; decompose: as, to corrupt the blood.
3. To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; cause the decomposition of (an organic body), as by a natural process, accompanied by a fetid smell; change from a good to a bad physical condition, in any way.
4. To vitiate or deprave, in a moral sense; change from good to bad; infect with evil; pervert; debase.
5. To pervert or vitiate the integrity of; entice from allegiance, or from a good to an evil course of conduct; influence by a bribe or other wrong motive.
6. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; infect with imperfections or errors; falsify; pervert: as, to corrupt language; to corrupt a text.
7. Synonyms Spoil, taint. Contaminate, deprave, demoralize. See taint, v. t.
8. To become putrid; putrefy; rot.
9. Synonyms Decay, Putrefy, etc. See rot.
10. Decomposing, or showing signs of decomposition; putrid; spoiled; tainted; vitiated.
11. Debased in character; depraved; perverted; infected with evil.
12. Dishonest; without integrity; guilty of dishonesty involving bribery, or a disposition to bribe or be bribed: as, corrupt practices; a corrupt judge.
13. Changed for the worse; debased or falsified by admixture, addition, or alteration; erroneous or full of errors: as, a corrupt text.
14. Legally tainted, as by an act of attainder of treason or felony: said of the blood of one legally attainted. See corruption, 8.

Wiktionary

1. adj. In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
2. adj. With lots of errors in it; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
3. adj. In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
4. v. transitive To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
5. v. intransitive To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
2. adj. Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted.
3. adj. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct.
4. v. To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.
5. v. To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile.
6. v. To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty.
7. v. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.
8. v. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
9. v. To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
10. v. To become vitiated; to lose purity or goodness.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
2. v. place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
3. v. make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
4. adj. containing errors or alterations
5. adj. touched by rot or decay
6. adj. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
7. adj. lacking in integrity
8. v. alter from the original