corrupting

Definition of Corrupting in English :

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Adjective

1. corrupting

seducing into corrupt practices

2. corrupting, degrading

harmful to the mind or morals

Example Sentences:
'corrupt judges and their corrupting influence'
'the vicious and degrading cult of violence'

degrading

3. contaminating, corrupting

that infects or taints

contaminating

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Corrupting

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adjective

1.

lacking in integrity; open to or involving bribery or other dishonest practices

a corrupt official

corrupt practices in an election

2.

morally depraved

3.

putrid or rotten

4.

contaminated; unclean

5.

(of a text or manuscript) made meaningless or different in meaning from the original by scribal errors or alterations

6.

(of computer programs or data) containing errors

verb

7.

to become or cause to become dishonest or disloyal

8.

to debase or become debased morally; deprave

9. (transitive)

to infect or contaminate; taint

10. (transitive)

to cause to become rotten

11. (transitive)

to alter (a text, manuscript, etc) from the original

12. (transitive) computing

to introduce errors into (data or a program)

Corrupting

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adjective

1. Obsolete

changed from a sound condition to an unsound one; spoiled; contaminated; rotten

2.

deteriorated from the normal or standard

; specif.,

a.

morally unsound or debased; perverted; evil; depraved

b.

taking bribes; venal

c.

containing alterations, errors, or admixtures of foreignisms

said of texts, languages, etc.

verb transitive, verb intransitive

3.

to make or become corrupt

Corrupting

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adj.

1. Marked by immorality and perversion; depraved.

2. Venal or dishonest: a corrupt mayor.

3. Containing errors or alterations, especially ones that prevent proper understanding or use: a corrupt translation; a corrupt computer file.

4. Archaic Tainted; putrid.

v. cor·rupt·ed, cor·rupt·ing, cor·rupts

v.tr.

1. To ruin morally; pervert: "The argument that modern life consists of a menu of horrors by which we are corrupted ... is a founding idea of the critique of modernity" (Susan Sontag).

2. To destroy or subvert the honesty or integrity of, as by offering bribes: "Our politics has been corrupted by money and suffused with meanness" (Peter Edelman).

3.

a. To cause to become rotten; spoil: "There was a strange smell in the room, high and slightly sweet, like perfume corrupted in the bottle" (Bella Bathurst).

b. Archaic To render impure; contaminate.

4.

a. To alter from original or proper form: "Strangers named them the Chippewa, which was corrupted to Ojibway" (Paul Theroux).

b. Computers To damage (data) in a file or on a disk.

v.intr.

To become corrupt.

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