corruption
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /kəˈɹʌpʃən/
corruption
- 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.
The Constitutional History of England - 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.
- The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to generation.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- The product of corruption; putrid matter.
- 1821, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 2, page 154:
- 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.
- 1821, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 2, page 154:
- The decomposition of biological matter.
- The seeking of bribes.
- (computing) 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.
- The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct.
- a corruption of style
- corruption in language
- (linguistics) A debased or nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, mishearing, etc.
- Something originally good or pure that has turned evil or impure; a perversion.
- French: corruption, pourriture
- German: Verderbnis, Verdorbenheit, Verkommenheit, Verworfenheit
- Italian: corruzione
- Portuguese: corrupção
- Russian: развраще́ние
- Spanish: corrupto
- German: Verderbnis
- Russian: по́рченное
- German: Fäulnis, Zersetzung
- Russian: разложе́ние
- French: corruption, concussion
- German: Korruption, Bestechlichkeit, Vorteilsnahme, Vorteilsannahme
- Italian: corruzione
- Portuguese: corrupção
- Russian: корру́пция
- Spanish: corrupción, corruptela
- German: Datenschaden, Datenbeschädigung, Datenkorruption
- Russian: поврежде́ние да́нных
- German: Verfall
- Russian: па́дание
- German: Korruptel, Korruptele, verderbte Stelle
- Portuguese: corruptela
- (economics) rent-seeking
- (act of corrupting or making putrid) adulteration, contamination, debasement, defilement, dirtying, soiling, tainting
- (state of being corrupt or putrid) decay, decomposition, deterioration, putrefaction, rotting
- (product of corruption; putrid matter) decay, putrescence, rot
- (act of impairing integrity)
- (state of being corrupted or debased) debasement, depravity, evil, impurity, sinfulness, wickedness
- (act of changing for the worse) deterioration, worsening
- (act of being changed for the worse) destroying, ruining, spoiling
- (departure from what is pure or correct) deterioration, erosion
- (debased or nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text) bastardization
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