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Corrupted definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CORRUPTED, pp. Putrefied; vitiated; depraved; spoiled; marred; bribed; infected with errors.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: containing errors or alterations; "a corrupt text"; "spoke a corrupted version of the language" [syn: corrupt, corrupted]
2: ruined in character or quality [syn: corrupted, debased, vitiated]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Corrupt Cor*rupt", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Corrupted; p. pr. & vb. n. Corrupting.] 1. To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy. 2. To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile. Evil communications corrupt good manners. --1. Cor. xv. 33. 3. To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe. Heaven is above all yet; there sits a Judge That no king can corrupt. --Shak. 4. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text. He that makes an ill use of it [language], though he does not corrupt the fountains of knowledge, . . . yet he stops the pines. --Locke. 5. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt. --Matt. vi. 19.