corrupting

Verb

corrupt (third-person singular simple present corrupts, present participle corrupting, simple past and past participle corrupted)

1. (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
   • Don't you dare corrupt my son with those disgusting pictures!

   Synonyms:

   defile, lead astray, sully, warp, desecrate, profanate, profane, profanize, pollute, tarnish

2. (archaic, intransitive) To become putrid, tainted, or otherwise impure; to putrefy; to rot.
   • he entrails, which are the parts aptest to corrupt1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VIII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for...

   Synonyms:

   decay, decompose, fester

3. (transitive) To introduce errors; to place into an invalid state.
   • Unplugging a flash drive without dismounting it first can corrupt the data stored on the drive.
4. To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify.
   • to corrupt language, or a holy text

   Synonyms:

   adulter, bastardize, sophisticate, abase, adulterate, adulterize, alloy, balderdash, dash, dilute

5. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
   • Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 6:19

   Synonyms:

   mar, ruin, vitiate, ball up, blight, bumble, botch, bugger up, bungle, contaminate

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