corruptとは

発音

• 韻: -ʌpt

形容詞

corrupt (comparative more corrupt, superlative most corrupt)

1. In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.

   The Government here is corrupt, so we'll emigrate to escape them.

2. With lots of errors in it; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.

   The text of the manuscript is corrupt.

   It turned out that the program was corrupt - that's why it wouldn't open.

3. In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

   Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them.

使用する際の注意点

• Nouns to which "corrupt" is often applied: practice, state, country, nation, regime, city, government, person, man, politician, leader, mayor, judge, member, minister, file, database, document.

引用

• 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version)^[1], Genesis 6:11

  The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

同意語

• corrupted

動詞

corrupt (三人称単数 現在形 corrupts, 現在分詞 corrupting, 過去形および過去分詞形 corrupted)

1. (transitive) 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!

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version)^[2], Genesis 6:12

     And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

関連する語

• corruptible
• corruption
• incorruptible

参照

• corrupt in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• corrupt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913