corrupt

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Willing to act dishonestly in return for money or power.

   The government here is corrupt, so many people want to leave.

2. 2
   verb

   To make someone become dishonest or morally bad.

   He worried that power would corrupt his old friend.

3. 3
   adj

   Containing errors so that it no longer works properly.

   The download failed and left me with a corrupt file.

From Middle English corrupten, derived from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpō (“to destroy, ruin, injure, spoil, corrupt, bribe”), from com- (“together”) + rumpō (“to break in pieces”).

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