corruption
10
5.6
- noun
- /kəˈrʌpʃən/
:
putrefacción
- Beneath the moon there was decay, change, corruption, all kinds of of uncontrollable grubbiness.
- corruption and decay
- corruption and death
- corruption grew
Beneath the moon there was decay, change, corruption, all kinds of of uncontrollable grubbiness.
- Beneath the moon there was decay, change, corruption, all kinds of of uncontrollable grubbiness.
- Our senses deceive us into thinking that there's a multiplicity and that things come into being or see cease to be right generation and corruption.
Examples
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We therefore commit her body to the deep to be turned into corruption.
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Watch for the telltale signs of corruption.
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We therefore commit this body to the Earth, to be turned once more into corruption.
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Tonight, it seemed to hint at corruption and decay.
Fiction book (1999) -
Once the decay gets started, it can only lead to rot, filth, corruption.
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City Hall is the decaying symbol of mismanagement and corruption.
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Economic decay, corruption, and foreign influence all served to weaken the tenuous hold of the Nationalist government.
Academic text (1995) -
The health system has been devastated by decades of underinvestment, corruption, and neglect; long-vanquished diseases, such as malaria and measles, have returned.
Academic text (2018) -
It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption.
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We therefore commit her body to the deep to be turned into corruption.
Synonyms
50
4.5
The gradual loss of strength or good condition over time
43
5.9
A slow change when something like a building or a person's health becomes worse
33
6.8
The process of making land, water, or buildings worse over time
8
7.5
A process of becoming worse in condition, quality, or morals
3
4.6
A state when food or wood goes bad
1
9.9
A state of rotting that gives a bad smell
1
8.2
A strong bad smell from rotting things
Antonyms
Compounds
How Decayed
- Specialized
3
8.9
156
1.4
10
5.6
43
5.9
15
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
corruption = corrupt (semi-transparent) = corrupt + ion
Morphologically regular (corrupt + -ion) but the sense 'physical decay' is an older/less common extension and may not be derivable for learners who know only the moral/administrative senses.
Etymology
Corruption comes from the Latin word corrumpere meaning 'to spoil' or 'to break'. It first described things that go rotten, so corruption still means physical decay or something that has been spoiled.