to corrupt

Examples

• All

• The ultraviolet rays in sunlight corrupt varnish, make it brittle or Milky, crack, or most often brownish yellow.

• On readback, the signal has been corrupted by noise and distortion, and by intersymbol interference.

  Academic text (1996)

• And so you corrupt the system with information that actually, you know, draws wrong conclusions.

  Chris Williamson

• Places where data can become corrupted need to be identified.

  Academic text (1998)

• But a sudden shutdown can corrupt your data, creating more problems and more costs down the line.

  Academic text (2007)

• The data can easily get lost, become corrupted, and/or not be collected at all.

  Academic text (1998)

• Controls for catching and correcting corrupted data need to be implemented.

  Academic text (1998)

• Cancer cells corrupt the DNA replication apparatus so that it allows a sprinkling of DNA damage every time it makes a so.

• Bank surveillance was corrupted.

  Ambulance (2022)

• They have backups of backups but they're all corrupted.

  36 Husbands (2019)

Synonyms

P

to poison

vsto corrupt

97 4.4

To damage a relationship or group by spreading bad ideas

focuses on altering data from its original form to make it invalid or unusable

S

to spoil

vsto corrupt

80 2.8

To make something less good or enjoyable

is specifically about changing data so it becomes invalid or unusable

Antonyms

P

to preserve

496 3.4

To keep people and things safe from harm or change

R

to restore

219 3.5

Return something like a painting or building to its original working condition

Compounds

R

Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act

• Formal

1 8.8

United States law from 1970 used to fight organized crime by giving stronger punishments

How Corrupted

to destroy

∞ 1.0

to corrupt

• Specialized

39 5.2

to damage

885 1.4

to alter

493 2.5

to edit

337 1.5

Surface Forms

Etymology