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cor⋅rupt

  [kuh-ruhpt]
Use corruptive in a Sentence
–adjective
1. guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
2. debased in character; depraved; perverted; wicked; evil: a corrupt society.
3. made inferior by errors or alterations, as a text.
4. infected; tainted.
5. decayed; putrid.
–verb (used with object)
6. to destroy the integrity of; cause to be dishonest, disloyal, etc., esp. by bribery.
7. to lower morally; pervert: to corrupt youth.
8. to alter (a language, text, etc.) for the worse; debase.
9. to mar; spoil.
10. to infect; taint.
11. to make putrid or putrescent.
12. English Law. to subject (an attainted person) to corruption of blood.
–verb (used without object)
13. to become corrupt.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME (< AF) < L corruptus broken in pieces, corrupted (ptp. of corrumpere), equiv. to cor- cor- + rup- (var. s. of rumpere to break) + -tus ptp. suffix

Related forms:
cor⋅rupt⋅ed⋅ly, adverb
cor⋅rupt⋅ed⋅ness, noun
cor⋅rupt⋅er, cor⋅rup⋅tor, noun
cor⋅rup⋅tive, adjective
cor⋅rup⋅tive⋅ly, adverb
cor⋅rupt⋅ly, adverb
cor⋅rupt⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. false, untrustworthy. Corrupt, dishonest, venal apply to one, esp. in public office, who acts on mercenary motives, without regard to honor, right, or justice. A corrupt politician is one originally honest who has succumbed to temptation and begun questionable practices. A dishonest politician is one lacking native integrity. A venal politician is one so totally debased as to sell patronage. 3, 4. contaminated. 4, 5. putrescent, rotten, spoiled. 6. demoralize, bribe. 7. debase, vitiate. 10. contaminate, pollute, spoil, defile. 11. putrefy.
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cor·rupt   (kə-rŭpt')   
adj.  
  1. Marked by immorality and perversion; depraved.
  2. Venal; dishonest: a corrupt mayor.
  3. Containing errors or alterations, as a text: a corrupt translation.
  4. Archaic Tainted; putrid.
v.   cor·rupt·ed, cor·rupt·ing, cor·rupts

v.   tr.
  1. To destroy or subvert the honesty or integrity of.
  2. To ruin morally; pervert.
  3. To taint; contaminate.
  4. To cause to become rotten; spoil.
  5. To change the original form of (a text, for example).
  6. Computer Science To damage (data) in a file or on a disk.
v.   intr.
To become corrupt.

[Middle English, from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpere, to destroy : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + rumpere, to break; see reup- in Indo-European roots.]
cor·rupt'er, cor·rup'tor n., cor·rup'tive adj., cor·rupt'ly adv., cor·rupt'ness n.
Synonyms: These verbs mean to ruin utterly in character or quality: was corrupted by limitless power; debased himself by pleading with the captors; a youth debauched by drugs and drink; indulgence that depraves the moral fiber; perverted her talent by putting it to evil purposes; a proof vitiated by a serious omission.
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Corruptive

Cor*rupt"ive\ (k?r-r?p"t?v), a. [L. corruptivus: cf. F. corruptif.] Having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption.

It should be endued with some corruptive quality for so speedy a dissolution of the meat. --Ray.
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