corrupt

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
corrupt/kəˈrʌpt/

▶adjective

• 1 willing to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain.

  ■ evil or morally depraved.

• 2 (of a text or a computer database or program) made unreliable by errors or alterations.

• 3 archaic rotten or putrid.

▶verb

• 1 make corrupt: he was corrupted by power.

• 2 debase (a text, database, etc.) by introducing errors.

• 3 archaic infect or contaminate.

– derivatives
corrupter noun,
corruptibility noun,
corruptible adjective,
corruptive adjective,
corruptly adverb.

– origin ME: from L. corrupt-, corrumpere ‘mar, bribe, destroy’, from cor- ‘altogether’ + rumpere ‘to break’.