Corruption

Quick meaning: Corruption is a noun meaning The product of corruption; putrid matter.

Meaning

The product of corruption; putrid matter.

More Meanings

1. The decomposition of biological matter.
2. The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct.
3. The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity.
4. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
5. Unethical administrative or executive practices (in government or business), including bribery (offering or receiving bribes), conflicts of interest, nepotism, embezzlement, and so on.
6. (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.
7. (metalanguage) A nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, especially when resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, or mishearing. (See a usage note about this sense.)

Example Sentences

a corruption of style

They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days.

It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, […] to exite popular indignation against them.

The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to generation.

Word Forms

• corruptions

Synonyms for corruption

Depending on context, synonyms include rent-seeking, abasement, adulteration, debasement, debauchment, defilement.

Antonyms for corruption

Common opposites include exaltation, expiation, preservation, purgation, purification, rehabilitation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include corruptness, degeneracy, depravity, rottenness, putrescence, corrupted.

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