Synonyms for corrupt
- adjective
- verb
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Tainted
tainted, venal, reprobate, immoral, depraved, bad, shady, abandoned, crooked, dishonest, unscrupulous, evil, ugly, corruptible, unethical, unprincipled, vitiated, perverted, putrid, debauched, rotten, debased
Other
under-handed, addled dated
Verb
1. Debauch — to make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert
debauch, pervert, debase, subvert, vitiate, taint, defile, dirty, pollute, poison, profane, sully, seduce, infect, tarnish, warp, violate, misdirect, garble, desecrate, sophisticate, lead astray
2. Spoil — to waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless
spoil, contaminate, ruin, stain, deprave, mess up, blight, canker, soil, mar
3. Dilute — to debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify
Definitions
- adj. 1
Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
- v. 1
To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
Don't you dare corrupt my son with those disgusting pictures!
- v. 2
To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify.
to corrupt language, or a holy text
- v. 3
To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
Related words
- Word family
- corruptly corruptness corruptocracy corruptible corruptive corruption
Forms
- Past participle
- corrupted
e.g. corrupted → debauched, perverted, debased, subverted…
Example sentences
- immoral Be immoral, cheat and steal. Such people live well.
- tainted The memories we share are tainted by the anger I hold.
- depraved Yanni is a depraved person with interests in minors.
- venal A lack of money makes anyone venal. It's natural.
By length
- 3 letters
- bad1, buy1, mar1, rot1
- 4 letters
- evil2, ugly2, soil1, ruin2, dash1, warp1
- 5 letters
- dirty2, spoil1, decay2, shady2, stain1, alloy2, bribe1, sully2, taint1, venal2
- 6 letters
- poison2, rotten2, infect2, seduce2, blight1, dilute2, fester2, putrid2, addled2, defile, canker2, debase2, garble2
- 7 letters
- violate3, crooked2, immoral3, tainted2, pervert2, subvert2, profane2, pollute2, tarnish2, debased2, vitiate3, debauch, deprave2
- 8 letters
- depraved2, vitiated
- 9 letters
- abandoned3, dishonest3, unethical4, perverted3, decompose3, debauched, desecrate3, reprobate3, misdirect3
- 11 letters
- contaminate4, corruptible4
- 12 letters
- unscrupulous4, unprincipled4, sophisticate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (evil2 = 2 syllables).