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corrupted

/kuh-ruhpt/US // kəˈrʌpt //UK // (kəˈrʌpt) //

腐败的,腐化的,腐化,腐烂的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
    • : debased in character; depraved; perverted; wicked; evil: a corrupt society.
    • : made inferior by errors or alterations: Scholars compared the corrupt Alexandrian manuscript with a more reliable Greek translation.
    • : infected; tainted.
    • : Archaic. decayed; putrid.
    • : Computers. relating to or designating computer code or stored data that contains errors: If the corrupt file won’t open, restore a previous save.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to destroy the integrity of; cause to be dishonest, disloyal, etc., especially by bribery.
    • : to lower morally; pervert: to corrupt youth.
    • : to alter for the worse; debase.
    • : to mar; spoil.
    • : to infect; taint.
    • : Archaic. to make putrid or putrescent.
    • : Computers. to introduce errors in when saving, transmitting, or retrieving it: I downloaded some free modifications that corrupted the core program, so I can’t open it until I uninstall and reinstall the original version.
    • : English Law. to subject to corruption of blood.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to become corrupt.

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Examples

  • The novel’s robustly flavorsome cast includes a semi-deranged land preservationist, a corrupt Nobel Prize winner, a Chilean Ayn Rand disciple and several wonderful dogs.

  • Maybe it’s because Bernhardt and his cronies are exactly the corrupt, immoral pawns of the fossil fuel industry we’ve been saying they are all along.

  • After being shown slides of corrupted tissue from patient biopsies, a medical AI was able to detect cancer to a degree of 97 percent specificity, and 98 percent sensitivity.

  • For example, Microsoft developed a reputation in recent years for rolling out clunky products and campaigns — from Vista to corrupted chatbots — that suffered from hurried rollouts.

  • As Fortune noted, Galloway, as state auditor, “recovered $350 million in wasted or stolen taxpayer money and brought 50 criminal counts against corrupt public officials, both Republican and Democratic.”

  • That could include private financial or personal information—like the credit-card numbers you used to pay for the corrupted Wi-Fi.

  • And its mean-hearted message, in my opinion, has corrupted the social gospel.

  • When Emmanuel came he tried to educate us, telling us you have to stop killing, destroying, being corrupted.

  • The term “lobbyist” supposedly was coined during the well-corrupted (and well-soaked) presidency of Ulysses S. Grant.

  • Almost like examining every game developer and game publication for signs of being “corrupted by the feminist agenda.”

  • Solomon, and the Second Solomon, rest in their unknown graves; their wisdom is corrupted; but their genius survives in the earth.

  • All these princes go out of the way, they walk deceitfully, they are brass and iron: they are all corrupted.

  • If the poet takes to writing musical comedies, it is because some evil influence has corrupted him.

  • Even among the men of the day, corrupted and distracted as they are by foreign innovations, could real strength be found?

  • By degrees all will be necessarily corrupted, in a State whose chief is corrupt himself.