corruptor
corruptor is the alternative form of corrupter.
Meaning of corrupter
Noun
corrupter (plural corrupters)
- One who or that which corrupts.
- Can love, which always seeks the good of its object, attempt to betray a woman into a bargain where she is so greatly to be the loser? If such corrupter, therefore, should have the impudence to pretend a real affection for her, ought not the woman to regard him […] as the worst of all enemies […] ?1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- Synonyms:
- perverter
Forms of corruptor
| plural | corruptors |
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Origin of corruptor
Borrowed from Latin corruptor.
Words formed from corruptor
Questions about corruptor
- What is corruptor the alternative form of?
- Corruptor is the alternative form of corrupter.
Words near corruptor in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: corruptor (page history and authors); corrupter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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