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单词 corrupt
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corrupt

adjective
 
/kəˈrʌpt/
/kəˈrʌpt/
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  1.  
    (of people) willing to use their power to do dishonest or illegal things in return for money or to get an advantage
    • It was seen as the only way to overthrow a corrupt regime.
    • They promised to seek out the corrupt officials who had accepted the bribes.
    • one of the most notoriously corrupt city councils
    Topics Personal qualitiesc1, Crime and punishmentc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • become
    adverb
    • hopelessly
    • thoroughly
    • totally
    • …
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  2.  
    (of behaviour) not honest or moral
    • They had been engaged in corrupt practices.
    • The whole system is inefficient and corrupt.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • become
    adverb
    • hopelessly
    • thoroughly
    • totally
    • …
    See full entry
  3. (computing) containing changes or faults, and no longer in the original state
    • corrupt software
    • The file on the disk seems to be corrupt.
    4. Word OriginMiddle English: from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpere ‘mar, bribe, destroy’, from cor- ‘altogether’ + rumpere ‘to break’.

corrupt

verb
/kəˈrʌpt/
/kəˈrʌpt/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they corrupt
/kəˈrʌpt/
/kəˈrʌpt/
he / she / it corrupts
/kəˈrʌpts/
/kəˈrʌpts/
past simple corrupted
/kəˈrʌptɪd/
/kəˈrʌptɪd/
past participle corrupted
/kəˈrʌptɪd/
/kəˈrʌptɪd/
-ing form corrupting
/kəˈrʌptɪŋ/
/kəˈrʌptɪŋ/
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  1. [transitive, intransitive] corrupt (somebody) to have a bad effect on somebody and make them behave in a way that is not honest or moral
    • He was corrupted by power and ambition.
    • the corrupting effects of great wealth
    Topics Crime and punishmentc1
  2. [transitive, often passive] corrupt something to change the original form of something, so that it is damaged or made less good in some way
    • a corrupted form of Buddhism
  3. [transitive, intransitive] corrupt (something) (computing) to cause mistakes to appear in a computer file, etc. with the result that the information in it is no longer correct; (of a computer file, etc.) to start containing mistakes
    • The program has somehow corrupted the system files.
    • corrupted data
    • The disk will corrupt if it is overloaded.
    Topics Computersc2
    4. Word OriginMiddle English: from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpere ‘mar, bribe, destroy’, from cor- ‘altogether’ + rumpere ‘to break’.
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