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corrupting

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

腐败的,腐败性的,腐败性,腐败

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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

  • After the Godslayer takes off, the eagle tells the Hunter to free the eagle’s children who have been corrupted by him.

  • His Facebook fan page has repeatedly blasted prosecutors as “corrupt” and motivated by politics.

  • The more that favored constituencies can—or think they can—get through antitrust, the more meddlesome and corrupt the process will become.

  • If there’s an asteroid on a collision course for Earth, the data might now be too corrupted for us to find it early enough and plan a proper response.

  • Harding was kind of a weakling who didn’t try to stop other corrupt people in his cabinet, even once he knew about it.

  • Greer loves politics, but hates the corrupting influence of money on the system.

  • Yet like Jews and African Americans, gays are “among us,” polluting our race, corrupting our values.

  • Rousseau maintained that humans are peaceful in their natural state; wars result from the corrupting influences of civilization.

  • Apparently it was, yes, those ubiquitous Americans always bent on corrupting Mother Russia.

  • A school shooting in north Moscow had politicians quickly blaming American culture as a corrupting influence on Russian youth.

  • The English have too much pride to be tricky or shabby, even in the essentially corrupting relation of buyer and seller.

  • This is the only book that I know which goes deeply into the corrupting, demoralizing psychology of prison life.

  • To do this with taste, and without corrupting or annihilating the meaning of the word, demands a certain amount of literary skill.

  • Misreading or corrupting the purer teaching of their founder, they place their hopes in sensual enjoyment.

  • Terror has been and always will be the most certain means of corrupting and enslaving the mind of man.