Synonyms of the word corrupt


CORRUPTALTER - BRIBABLE - BRIBE - BUY - CHANGE - CLOUD - CORRUPTED - CORRUPTIBLE - CROOKED - DEBASE - DEBASED - DEBAUCH - DEFILE - DEFLOWER - DEMORALISE - DEMORALIZE - DEPRAVE - DEPRAVED - DIRTY - DISHONEST - DISHONORABLE - IMMORAL - IMPAIR - IMPERFECT - MAR - MISDIRECT - MODIFY - PAY - PERVERSE - PERVERT - PERVERTED - PROFANE - PURCHASABLE - PUTRID - REPROBATE - ROTTEN - SNEAKY - SOLD-OUT - SORDID - SPOIL - SUBVERT - SULLY - TAINT - TAINTED - UNDERHAND - UNDERHANDED - UNLAWFUL - VENAL - VITIATE - VITIATED

corrupt

  • adj. In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
  • adj. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
  • adj. In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
  • v. (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave;…
  • v. (intransitive) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
  • v. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.
  • v. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

alter

  • v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
  • v. (intransitive) To become different.
  • v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
  • v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

bribable

  • adj. Susceptible to bribery.

bribe

  • n. Something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to dishonesty.
  • n. That which seduces; seduction; allurement.
  • v. (transitive) To give a bribe to; specifically, to ask a person to do something, usually against his/her…
  • v. (transitive) To gain by a bribe; to induce as by a bribe.

buy

  • v. (transitive) To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.
  • v. (transitive) To obtain by some sacrifice.
  • v. (transitive) To bribe.
  • v. (transitive) To be equivalent to in value.
  • v. (transitive, informal) to accept as true; to believe.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a purchase or purchases, to treat (for a meal).
  • v. (poker slang, transitive) To make a bluff, usually a large one.
  • n. Something which is bought; a purchase.

change

  • v. (intransitive) To become something different.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
  • v. (transitive) To replace.
  • v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
  • v. (archaic) To exchange.
  • v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
  • n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
  • n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
  • n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
  • n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
  • n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
  • n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
  • n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  • n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
  • n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
  • n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

cloud

  • n. (obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.
  • n. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
  • n. Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
  • n. Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
  • n. A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
  • n. An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
  • n. (computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage,…
  • n. (figuratively) A negative aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver…
  • n. (slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
  • n. A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
  • v. (intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight.
  • v. (transitive) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
  • v. (transitive) To make obscure.
  • v. (transitive) To make gloomy or sullen.
  • v. (transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
  • v. (transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colours.

corrupted

  • adj. Marked by immorality and perversion; depraved.
  • adj. Dishonest.
  • adj. Containing errors.
  • v. past participle of corrupt.

corruptible

  • adj. Possible to corrupt.
  • n. (archaic) That which may decay and perish; the human body.

crooked

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of crook.
  • adj. Not straight; having one or more bends or angles.
  • adj. Set at an angle; not vertical or square.
  • adj. (figuratively) Dishonest or illegal; corrupt.

debase

  • v. (transitive) To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To lower in position or rank.
  • v. (transitive) To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.

debased

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of debase.

debauch

  • n. An individual act of debauchery.
  • n. An orgy.
  • v. (transitive) To morally corrupt (someone); to seduce.
  • v. (transitive) To debase (something); to lower the value of (something).

defile

  • v. (transitive) to make impure; to make dirty.
  • n. A narrow way or passage, e.g. between mountains.
  • n. A single file, such as of soldiers.
  • n. The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior.
  • v. (archaic, intransitive) To march in a single file.

deflower

  • v. (transitive) To take the virginity of (somebody), especially a woman or girl.

demoralise

  • v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of demoralize.

demoralize

  • v. (American) To destroy morale; to dishearten.

deprave

  • v. (transitive) To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.
  • v. (transitive) To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt.

depraved

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of deprave.
  • adj. Perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense.
  • adj. (archaic) Distorted out of the normal course; abnormal.

dirty

  • adj. Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
  • adj. That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.
  • adj. Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.
  • adj. Dishonourable; violating accepted standards or rules.
  • adj. Corrupt, illegal, or improper.
  • adj. Out of tune.
  • adj. Of color, discolored by impurities.
  • adj. (computing) Containing data which need to be written back to a larger memory.
  • adj. (slang) Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream.
  • adj. (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great".
  • adj. Sleety; gusty; stormy.
  • adv. In a dirty manner.
  • v. (transitive) To make (something) dirty.
  • v. (transitive) To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor.
  • v. (transitive) To debase by distorting the real nature of (something).
  • v. (intransitive) To become soiled.

dishonest

  • adj. Not honest.
  • adj. Interfering with honesty.
  • adj. (obsolete) Dishonourable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
  • adj. (obsolete) Dishonoured; disgraced; disfigured.

dishonorable

  • adj. Without honor, or causing dishonor.
  • adj. Lacking respect or ethical principles.

immoral

  • adj. Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law.

impair

  • v. (transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
  • adj. (obsolete) Not fit or appropriate.

imperfect

  • adj. Not perfect.
  • adj. (botany) unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.
  • adj. (taxonomy) Known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
  • adj. (obsolete) Lacking some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
  • n. Something having a minor flaw.
  • n. (grammar) A tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous.
  • v. (transitive) To make imperfect.

mar

  • v. To spoil, to damage.
  • n. A blemish.
  • n. A small lake.

misdirect

  • v. To direct something wrongly.
  • v. To put the incorrect address on a mail item.

modify

  • v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

pay

  • v. (transitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due…
  • v. (transitive) To be profitable for.
  • v. (transitive) To give (something else than money).
  • v. (intransitive) To be profitable or worth the effort.
  • v. (intransitive) To discharge an obligation or debt.
  • v. (intransitive) To suffer consequences.
  • n. Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
  • adj. Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
  • adj. Pertaining to or requiring payment.
  • v. (nautical, transitive) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a…

perverse

  • adj. Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the (morally) right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted.
  • adj. Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence, wayward; vexing; contrary.
  • adj. (law, of a verdict) Ignoring the evidence or the judge's opinions.

pervert

  • n. (dated) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense…
  • n. A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable.
  • v. (transitive) To turn another way; to divert.
  • v. (transitive) To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to…
  • v. To misapply; to misinterpret designedly.
  • v. (intransitive) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.

perverted

  • adj. deviating from what is normally considered right, normal or correct.
  • adj. (pejorative, offensive) of, relating to, or practicing unusual or "kinky" sex.
  • adj. misrepresented, altered or distorted.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of pervert.

profane

  • adj. Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
  • adj. Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
  • adj. Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
  • adj. Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain.
  • n. A person or thing that is profane.
  • n. (freemasonry) A person not a Mason.
  • v. (transitive) To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to…
  • v. (transitive) To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

purchasable

  • adj. able to be purchased; available for purchase.
  • adj. affordable.

putrid

  • adj. Rotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction.
  • adj. of, relating to, or characteristic of putrefaction, especially having a bad smell, like that of rotting…
  • adj. Vile, disgusting.
  • adj. morally corrupt.
  • adj. totally objectionable.

reprobate

  • adj. (rare) Rejected; cast off as worthless.
  • adj. Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
  • adj. Immoral, having no religious or principled character.
  • n. One rejected by God; a sinful person.
  • n. An individual with low morals or principles.
  • v. To have strong disapproval of something; to condemn.
  • v. Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.
  • v. To refuse, set aside.

rotten

  • adj. Of perishable items, overridden with bacteria and other infectious agents.
  • adj. In a state of decay.
  • adj. Cruel, mean or immoral.
  • adj. Bad or terrible.
  • adv. To an extreme degree.

sneaky

  • adj. Difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries.
  • adj. Dishonest; deceitful.

sold-out

  • adj. Having been entirely sold, so that no stock remains.

sordid

  • adj. Dirty or squalid.
  • adj. Morally degrading.
  • adj. Grasping.

spoil

  • v. (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
  • v. (transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
  • v. (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
  • v. (intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
  • v. (transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
  • v. (transitive) To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
  • n. (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
  • n. (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or…

subvert

  • v. (transitive) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
  • v. (transitive) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
  • v. (transitive) To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
  • n. An advertisement created by subvertising.

sully

  • v. (transitive) to soil or stain; to dirty.
  • v. (transitive) to damage or corrupt.
  • v. (intransitive) To become soiled or tarnished.

taint

  • n. A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
  • n. A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
  • n. (obsolete) tincture; hue; colour.
  • n. (obsolete) infection; corruption; deprivation.
  • v. (transitive) To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
  • v. (transitive) To spoil (food) by contamination.
  • v. (intransitive) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
  • v. (intransitive) To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
  • v. (transitive, computing, programming) To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are…
  • v. (transitive, Australia, finance) To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into…
  • n. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
  • n. An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an…
  • v. (transitive) To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an…
  • v. (transitive) To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
  • v. (intransitive) To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
  • n. (slang) The perineum.
  • contract. Alternative spelling of 'taint.

tainted

  • adj. Corrupted or filled with imperfections.
  • adj. (computer security, of data) Originating from an untrusted source.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of taint.

underhand

  • adj. secret; clandestine.
  • adj. (by extension) dishonest and sneaky; done in a secret or sly manner.
  • adj. (in various ball games, of a ball) thrown (etc.) with the hand brought forward and up from below.
  • adv. with an underhand movement.
  • adv. in a sly, sneaky or secret manner.
  • v. To toss or lob with an underhand movement.
  • v. To trick, deceive or gull.
  • v. (mining) To excavate downward in successive steps or horizontal slices while positioned above on unbroken…
  • n. (textiles) The lower of two hands, the hand under the work.

underhanded

  • adj. Done by moving the hand (and arm) from below.
  • adj. Sly, dishonest, corrupt, cheating.
  • adj. Insincere; sarcastic.
  • adj. Secret; surreptitious.
  • adj. Understaffed.
  • adv. In an underhanded manner.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of underhand.
  • n. Devious people, collectively.

unlawful

  • adj. Prohibited; not permitted by law (either civil or criminal law; see illegal).

venal

  • adj. Venous; pertaining to veins.
  • adj. (archaic) For sale; available for purchase.
  • adj. Of a position, privilege etc.: available for purchase rather than assigned on merit.
  • adj. Capable of being bought (of a person); willing to take bribes.
  • adj. (of behaviour etc.) Corrupt, mercenary.

vitiate

  • v. (transitive) to spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.
  • v. (transitive) to debase or morally corrupt.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) to violate, to rape.
  • v. (transitive) to make something ineffective, to invalidate.

vitiated

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of vitiate.

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