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  1. 1. a. Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound. Source: opted
  2. 2. a. Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges. Source: opted
  3. 3. a. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt. Source: opted
  4. 4. v. t. To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy. Source: opted
  5. 5. v. t. To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile. Source: opted
  6. 6. v. t. To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe. Source: opted
  7. 7. v. t. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text. Source: opted
  8. 8. v. t. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless. Source: opted
  9. 9. v. i. To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot. Source: opted
  10. 10. v. i. To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness. Source: opted
  11. 11. adj. lacking in integrity Source: wordnet
  12. 12. adj. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive Source: wordnet

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