corrupt

Universal Words adjective, verb adjective 1 (of people) willing to use their power to do dishonest or illegal things in return for money or to get an advantage: a corrupt regime * corrupt officials accepting bribes 2 (of behaviour) dishonest or immoral: corrupt practices * The whole system is inefficient and corrupt. 3 (computing) containing changes or faults, and no longer in the original state: corrupt software * The text on the disk seems to be corrupt. corruptly adverb verb 1 [VN] to have a bad effect on sb and make them behave in an immoral or dishonest way: He was corrupted by power and ambition. * the corrupting effects of great wealth 2 [VN] [oftenpassive] to change the original form of sth, so that it is damaged or spoiled in some way: a corrupted form of Buddhism 3 (computing) to cause mistakes to appear in a computer file, etc. with the result that the information in it is no longer correct: [VN] The program has somehow corrupted the system files. * corrupted data * [V] The disk will corrupt if it is overloaded.