Corruption

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 2) * Henry Hallam The Constitutional History of England
 * It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them.
 * 1) * Bancroft
 * They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days.
 * 1) The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
 * 2) The product of corruption; putrid matter.
 * 3) The decomposition of biological matter.
 * 4)  The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, usually a result of imperfections in storage or transmission media which randomly alter parts of the data.
 * 5) The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language.
 * 6)  A debased or nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, mishearing, etc.
 * 7) Something that is evil but is supposed to be good.
 * The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to generation. &mdash; Francis Bacon.

Adjectives for Corruption
chronic; rampant; mercenary; medieval; chill; unparalleled; dishonorable; profound; incredible; wondrous; loathsome; utter; infamous; hidden; unhappy; ensuing; glossy; political; foulest; civic; official; business; notorious; pernicious; base; miry; monetary; general.

Verbs for Corruption
attend with—; befoul  with—;  charge with—; conceive in—; cripple by—; defend from—; deliver from—; denounce—; fall into—; fatten on—; feast on—; infect with—; loathe—; perish in—; practise—; preserve from—; rot with—; sow—; subject to—;  taint  with—;  —blemishes; —breaks  up; —contaminates; —decomposes; —depraves; —despoils; —destroys; deteriorates; —disintegrates; —dissolves; —extends to; —perverts; —putrefies; —undermines; —violates.

Synonyms for Corruption

 * adulteration, contamination, debasement, defilement, dirtying, soiling, tainting
 * decay, decomposition, deterioration, putrefaction, rotting
 * decay, putrescence, rot
 * debasement, depravity, evil, impurity, sinfulness, wickedness
 * bribery
 * deterioration, worsening
 * destroying, ruining, spoiling
 * deterioration, erosion
 * bastardization
 * deprivation, debasement, taint, swindling, graft, perversion, rottenness, putrefaction, baseness, degradation, infamy, vice, wickedness, guiltiness, criminality.
 * deprivation, debasement, taint, swindling, graft, perversion, rottenness, putrefaction, baseness, degradation, infamy, vice, wickedness, guiltiness, criminality.

Antonyms for Corruption
honesty, uprightness, soundness, integrity, morality.

Derived terms

 * corruption of blood

Thesaurus
abandon, abandonment, abjection, abomination, abuse of terms, acrostic, adulteration, alienation, amphibologism, amphiboly, anagram, antiphrasis, atrocity, bad, bane, barbarism, bastardizing, befouling, befoulment, biodegradability, biodegradation, blight, brainwashing, breakup, bribery, bribery and corruption, bribing, cacoepy, cacology, calembour, carrion, college of Laputa, colloquialism, contamination, corrosion, corruptedness, corruptness, counterindoctrination, criminality, crookedness, crying evil, cutting, damage, dandruff, debasement, decadence, decadency, decay, decomposition, defilement, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradability, degradation, demoralization, depravation, depravedness, depravity, despoliation, destruction, detriment, deviousness, dilapidation, dilution, dishonesty, dishonor, disintegration, disorganization, dissoluteness, dissolution, doctoring, envenoming, equivocality, equivoque, evasiveness, evil, excrement, false coloring, feloniousness, festering, filth, fortifying, foul matter, fouling, fraudulence, fraudulency, furfur, gammacism, gangrene, graft, grievance, harm, havoc, hurt, ill, improbity, impropriety, indirection, indoctrination, infection, infelicity, injury, jeu de mots, lacing, lambdacism, localism, logogram, logogriph, malapropism, mess, metagram, mildew, mischief, misconstruction, misdirection, misguidance, misinformation, misinstruction, misinterpretation, misknowledge, misleading, mispronunciation, misrepresentation, missaying, misspeaking, misteaching, misusage, misuse, mold, moral pollution, moral turpitude, muck, mucus, mystification, mytacism, obfuscation, obscenity, obscurantism, obscuration, ordure, outrage, oxidation, oxidization, palindrome, paralambdacism, pararhotacism, paronomasia, perversion, play on words, poison, poisoning, pollution, profligacy, prostitution, pun, punning, pus, putrid matter, reindoctrination, reprobacy, resolution, rhotacism, rot, rottenness, rust, scurf, scuz, shadiness, shiftiness, slang, slanting, slime, slipperiness, smut, snot, solecism, sophistry, sordes, spiking, spoilage, spoonerism, straining, subornation, subversion, suppuration, taboo word, the worst, torturing, toxin, trickiness, turpitude, unconscientiousness, underhandedness, ungrammaticism, unsavoriness, unscrupulousness, unstraightforwardness, venom, vexation, vitiation, vulgarism, watering, woe, wordplay, wrong

Etymology
From corruption, from  corruptio

Noun

 * 1) corruption

Related terms

 * corrompre

Anagrams

 * croupiront