\Cor*rupt`\ (k?r-r?pt"), a. [L. corruptus, p. p. of
corrumpere to corrupt; cor- + rumpere to break. See
{Rupture}.]
1. Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted;
   vitiated; unsound.
         Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed
         them.                                 --Knolles.
2. Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth,
   etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased;
   perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges.
         At what ease Might corrupt minds procure knaves as
         corrupt To swear against you.         --Shak.
3. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text
   of the manuscript is corrupt.

\Cor*rupt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Corrupted}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Corrupting}.]
1. To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to
   make putrid; to putrefy.
2. To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to
   pervert; to debase; to defile.
         Evil communications corrupt good manners. --1. Cor.
                                               xv. 33.
3. To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to
   corrupt a judge by a bribe.
         Heaven is above all yet; there sits a Judge That no
         king can corrupt.                     --Shak.
4. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations;
   to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred
   text.
         He that makes an ill use of it [language], though he
         does not corrupt the fountains of knowledge, . . .
         yet he stops the pines.               --Locke.
5. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
         Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth,
         where moth and rust doth corrupt.     --Matt. vi.
                                               19.

\Cor*rupt"\ (k?r-r?pt"), v. i.
1. To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot. --Bacon.
2. To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness.