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n. The act or process of corrupting.

n. The state of being corrupt.

n. Decay; rot.

n. Archaic Something that corrupts.

n. The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery.

n. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.

n. The product of corruption; putrid matter.

n. The decomposition of biological matter.

n. 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.

n. The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language.

n. A debased or nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, mishearing, etc.

n. Something that is evil but is supposed to be good.

n. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.

n. The product of corruption; putrid matter.

n. The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery.

n. The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct.

n. The act of corrupting, or the state of being corrupt or putrid; the destruction of the natural form of an organic body by decomposition accompanied by putrefaction; physical dissolution.

n. Putrid matter; pus.

n. Depravity; wickedness; perversion or extinction of moral principles; loss of purity or integrity.

n. Debasement or deterioration.

n. Perversion; vitiation: as, a corruption of language.

n. A corrupt or debased form of a word: as, “sparrow-grass” is a corruption of “asparagus.”

n. A perverting, vitiating, or depraving influence; more specifically, bribery.

n. In law, taint; impurity or defect (of heritable blood) in consequence of an act of attainder of treason or felony, by which a person is disabled from inheriting lands from an ancestor, and can neither retain those in his possession nor transmit them by descent to his heirs.

n. Synonyms Putrefaction, putrescence.

n. Pollution, defilement, contamination, vitiation, demoralization, foulness, baseness.

n. decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)

n. lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain

n. destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity

n. moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles

n. inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony)

n. in a state of progressive putrefaction

"A report in Corriere della Sera on Wednesday said Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano used the term "corruption" in a letter to Pope Benedict XVI to explain the difficulties he faced in his position as secretary-general of the Vatican city-state."

decay    debasement    degradation    immorality    inducement    inducing    putrefaction    rot   

corruption of blood   

taint    putrefaction    adulteration    debasement    deprivation    defilement    contamination    depravity    putrescence    deterioration   

anticorruption    disruption    eruption    interruption   

injustice    abuse    oppression    fraud    ignorance    vice    violence    poverty    wickedness    hypocrisy