· corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"
Synonym(s): pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect
Hypernym(s): change, alter, modify
· make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; "This judge can be bought"
Synonym(s): bribe, buy, grease_one%27s_palms
Hypernym(s): pay
· place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation"
Synonym(s): defile, sully, taint, cloud
Hypernym(s): mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate
· alter from the original
Synonym(s): spoil
Hypernym(s): modify
· lacking in integrity; "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government"
Antonym(s): incorrupt
· not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
Synonym(s): crooked
· containing errors or alterations; "a corrupt text"; "spoke a corrupted version of the language"
Synonym(s): corrupted
· touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"
Synonym(s): tainted