to corrupt
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4.5
- verb
- /kəˈrʌpt/
:
corromper
- It's the human side of you that has corrupted your reasoning, made you weak.
- power corrupts
- money corrupts
- a corrupting influence
My biggest fear is that success can corrupt any enterprise.
- My biggest fear is that success can corrupt any enterprise.
- Do you worry that power might corrupt you for sure.
- But people get corrupted through their families, through need.
- Do you think power has corrupted Vladimir Putin to a degree?
- And the words corrupt us and corrupt our understanding.
- And it actually works to corrupt journalism.
- You're on your own 'cause nigga, I will corrupt you.
- You can't live like this, it's not right and it corrupts them.
- He is the one who said, and this is an exact quote, power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely, which I'm sure you've heard.
- One bad player corrupts the other team members, creates a lot of turmoil in the locker room.
- Yeah, it's when we corrupt and violate the trust fabric, which is money, society unravels.
- Remember the great historian, writer and English parliamentarian Lord Acton who said power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Examples
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He believed that exposing children to violence could corrupt their innocence.
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And he argued against gambling on the grounds that it corrupts the person who's gambling.
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And the words corrupt us and corrupt our understanding.
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My biggest fear is that success can corrupt any enterprise.
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I mean, what concerns me is, is when belief is used to influence and corrupt education or politics.
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So it truly is to me like a very calculated run at trying to corrupt our young generation.
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And it actually works to corrupt journalism.
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Unfortunately, research indicates that competition may corrupt teachers to a greater degree than their students.
Academic text (1992) -
All systems contain elements that may corrupt the ethical foundations of their members.
Academic text (1993) -
One bad player corrupts the other team members, creates a lot of turmoil in the locker room.
Synonyms
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8.9
To pay someone illegally to influence their actions
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4.1
Give money or gifts to a person in authority to make them do something dishonest
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7.7
To make someone's morals worse by causing selfish or dishonest behaviour
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7.9
Cause someone to do things that are morally wrong
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9.9
To lead someone into too much drinking, sex, or other wrong acts
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8.4
To make someone behave in a morally wrong way
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8.5
To give someone money secretly to make them do something for you
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7.5
To make someone lose their sense of right and wrong
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8.3
To make someone behave badly by giving them wrong ideas
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8.4
To make people less moral by encouraging bad behaviour
Make a person lose moral strength or become corrupt
Antonyms
Compounds
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8.8
United States law from 1970 used to fight organized crime by giving stronger punishments
How Corrupting
- Formal
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8.3
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Corrupt as a verb comes from the same old idea of 'spoiling' or 'breaking' someone from the inside, with the root rupt meaning 'break'. To corrupt someone is to 'spoil' their honesty or make them act badly, for example by giving money or gifts to change what they do.