Meaning of corruption | Babel Free

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1. The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity.
   countable, uncountable
2. corruption (the act of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle)
3. to make or become evil or bad. He was corrupted by the bad influence of two friends. korrupteer يُفسِد покварявам (се) corromper zkazit (se) verderben fordærve; ødelægge διαφθείρωcorromper moraalselt rikkuma گمراه کردن؛ هرزه شدن turmella corrompre לְהַשחִית भ्रष्ट हो जाना pokvariti elront menjadi jahat atau rusak spilla corrompere 堕落させる 망가지다 (su)gadinti, (su)gesti samaitāt; demoralizēt; uzpirkt terpengaruh corrumperenforderve, demoralisere, korrumperepsuć, demoralizować فاسد ،چټلول، ككړه ول: ...
4. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
   countable, uncountable
5. corruption (the act of changing for the worse)
6. corruption, decay, rot
7. The product of corruption; putrid matter.
   countable, uncountable
8. omkoopbaar مُمكِن إفْسادُه подкупен corrompível zkazitelný, podplatitelný verderblich, bestechlich korrumperende δωροδοκήσιμος, που μπορεί να διαφθαρεί corruptible äraostetav فاسد شدنی؛ فساد پذیر lahjottavissa corruptible שְׁאֶפשָר לְהַשחִיתוֹ क्षयशील kvarljiv romlandó; megvesztegethető bisa dikorup spillanlegur; mútuþægni corruttibile 腐りやすい 타락, 부패하기 쉬운 paperkamas, pasiduodantis korupcijai samaitājams; uzpērkams mudah rosak akhlak omkoopbaar, bederfelijk bestikkelig przekupny فاسد شول corromp...
9. The decomposition of biological matter.
   countable, uncountable
10. omkoopbaarheid قابليَّـة الإفْـساد продажност corruptibilidade zkazitelnost, podplatitelnost die Verdorbenheit korrupthed τάση προς τη διαφθορά corruptibilidad äraostetavus تباهی؛ فساد lahjottavuus corruptibilitéהשחתה भ्रष्टता pokvarenost romlandóság; megvesztegethetőség kecurangan veikleiki fyrir spillingu; mútþægni corruttibilità 堕落性 타락성, 부패성 paperkamumas pērkamība kerosakan akhlak omkoopbaarheid, bederfelijkheidbestikkelighetprzekupstwo فساد corruptibilidade coruptibilitate коррумпированно...
11. Unethical administrative or executive practices (in government or business), including bribery (offering or receiving bribes), conflicts of interest, nepotism, embezzlement, and so on.
    countable, uncountable
12. The act or process of corrupting.
13. The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.
    countable, uncountable
14. Decay; rot.
15. The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct.
    countable, uncountable
16. the act of corrupting or state of being corrupt
17. A nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, especially when resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, or mishearing. (See a usage note about this sense.)
    countable, uncountable
18. moral perversion; depravity
19. Something originally good or pure that has turned evil or impure; a perversion.
    countable, uncountable
20. dishonesty, esp bribery
21. putrefaction or decay
22. (Linguistics) alteration, as of a manuscript

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Examples

“It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, […] to exite popular indignation against them.”

“They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days.”

“But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.”

“WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.”

“The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to generation.”

“Think of wandering amid sepulchral ruins, of stumbling over the bones of the dead, of encountering what I cannot describe,—the horror of being among those who are neither the living or the dead;—those dark and shadowless things that sport themselves with the reliques of the dead, and feast and love amid corruption,—ghastly, mocking, and terrific.”

“The idea of having a time lag is to allow for situations when a corruption of some type affects the source server. If a corruption occurs, you do not want it to replicate to the copy of the database, so the time lag gives administrators the opportunity to recognize that a problem exists and then to have the ability to switch from the database copy if the corruption is so bad that it renders the original database unusable.”

“a corruption of style”

“corruption of innocence”

“The affix ty, like té, Fr., ta, It., dad, Sp., is a corruption of the Latin affix tas, tat, and Greek tes; as bounty, bonté, Fr., bonta, It., bondad, Sp., bonitas from bonus, good; vanity, vanité, Fr., vanita, It., vanidad, Sp, vanitas from vanus, vain.”

“The estate is called Carfax, no doubt a corruption of the old Quatre Face, as the house is four-sided, agreeing with the cardinal points of the compass.”

“Even though the longer ending of Mark is itself secondary, its wording was no more immune to corruption than any other portion of the New Testament text (as scribes would normally not know they were corrupting a corruption).”

“God creates and produces them, but it is according to the Laws of this Species of Beings who were made to propagate one another, so that in this Production earthly Parents are the Instruments. And how far they may be the Instruments in conveying a Corruption or Pravity, is what we cannot distinctly explain; but to make this alone a Rason for denying it, would argue great Rashness and want of Reflection.”

“Far be it from me, however, to attribute the success to my exertions: I know very well that the whole success depends on the corruption and weakness of that system which I attack; for all that is requisite in this siege, is to tell the truth: let the truth be told, without concealment, and without fear of giving offence, and against such warfare the Church of England has no sort of chance: her corruptions and her abuses are so monstrous, that they need be only shewn to he hated; the only difficulty is to find persons who have the courage to withdraw the veil from the abominations that stand in the holy place.”

“They admitted that there were corruptions in the Church of Scotland, but denied that these corruptions were such as to render a separation from her necessary.”

“Let not lazy Christians ever think they shall be more than conquerors, while they use only drowsy and yawning desires, and wish that such a lust were weakened, that such a corruption were mortified and subdued, but never rouse up their graces against them.”

“We believe a corruption has started, we have feared this day for many years; ever since we got reports that a dark cult containing a small amount of members had been praying to the underworld god Volkin, and that they were never caught.”

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