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, 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.