The action or an act of adulterating, corrupting, contaminating, or debasing; (now esp.) the practice or process of making something poorer in…
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| 释义 | society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > [noun] > corrupting (33) adulteration1502 The action or an act of adulterating, corrupting, contaminating, or debasing; (now esp.) the practice or process of making something poorer in… corrupting1565 The action of corrupt, v. empoisonmenta1626 figurative. The action or fact of corrupting, spoiling, or harming. Cf. empoison, v. II. debauching1645 corruption1654 The perversion of an institution, custom, etc. from its primitive purity; an instance of this perversion. Subcategories:— one who or that which (14) — making venial (1) — infection (13) |
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