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  Corruption \Cor*rup"tion\ (k?r-r?p"sh?n), n. [F. corruption, L.
     corruptio.]
     1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being
        corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in
        the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
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              The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a
              subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is
              a reciprocal to ``generation''.       --Bacon.
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     2. The product of corruption; putrid matter.
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     3. The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue,
        or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or
        debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity;
        wickedness; impurity; bribery.
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              It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions
              of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation
              against them.                         --Hallam.
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              They abstained from some of the worst methods of
              corruption usual to their party in its earlier days.
                                                    --Bancroft.
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     Note: Corruption, when applied to officers, trustees, etc.,
           signifies the inducing a violation of duty by means of
           pecuniary considerations. --Abbott.
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     4. The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse;
        departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a
        corruption of style; corruption in language.
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     Corruption of blood (Law), taint or impurity of blood, in
        consequence of an act of attainder of treason or felony,
        by which a person is disabled from inheriting any estate
        or from transmitting it to others.
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              Corruption of blood can be removed only by act of
              Parliament.                           --Blackstone.
  
     Syn: Putrescence; putrefaction; defilement; contamination;
          deprivation; debasement; adulteration; depravity; taint.
          See Depravity.
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  Corruption \Cor*rup"tion\ (k?r-r?p"sh?n), n. [F. corruption, L.
     corruptio.]
     1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being
        corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in
        the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
  
              The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a
              subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is
              a reciprocal to ``generation''.       --Bacon.
  
     2. The product of corruption; putrid matter.
  
     3. The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue,
        or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or
        debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity;
        wickedness; impurity; bribery.
  
              It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions
              of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation
              against them.                         --Hallam.
  
              They abstained from some of the worst methods of
              corruption usual to their party in its earlier days.
                                                    --Bancroft.
  
     Note: Corruption, when applied to officers, trustees, etc.,
           signifies the inducing a violation of duty by means of
           pecuniary considerations. --Abbott.
  
     4. The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse;
        departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a
        corruption of style; corruption in language.
  
     Corruption of blood (Law), taint or impurity of blood, in
        consequence of an act of attainder of treason or felony,
        by which a person is disabled from inheriting any estate
        or from transmitting it to others.
  
              Corruption of blood can be removed only by act of
              Parliament.                           --Blackstone.
  
     Syn: Putrescence; putrefaction; defilement; contamination;
          deprivation; debasement; adulteration; depravity; taint.
          See Depravity.

  corruption
       n 1: lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to
            bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
            [syn: corruptness] [ant: incorruptness]
       2: in a state of progressive putrefaction [syn: putrescence,
          putridness, rottenness]
       3: decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
       4: moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles;
          "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes";
          "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration";
          "its brothels; its opium parlors; its depravity" [syn: degeneracy,
           depravity]
       5: destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty;
          undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the
          big city's subversion of rural innocence" [syn: subversion]
       6: inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as
          bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); "he
          was held on charges of corruption and racketeering"

  corruption
     Γαλλικά n.
     1 η διαφθορά
     2 η δωροδοκία
     3 η εκμαυλισμός
     4 o χρηματισμός
     5 η εξαχρείωση

  corruption
     n.
     The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral
  principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or
  integrity
     Old French n.
     (l en corruption) (gloss: state of being corrupted)

  corruption
     n.
     The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral
  principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or
  integrity

  corruption
     n.
     The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral
  principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or
  integrity
     Old French n.
     (l en corruption) (gloss: state of being corrupted)

  corruption
     n.
     The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral
  principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or
  integrity
     Old French n.
     (l en corruption) (gloss: state of being corrupted)

  corruption
     Ranska n.
     korruptio

  corruption
     Franska n.
     korruption

  corruption /kəɹˈʌpʃən/
  bederf

  Corruption /kəɹˈʌpʃən/
  الفساد

  corruption //kəˈɹʌpʃən// 
  1. кору́пция, корупция
  seeking bribes
  2. развраще́ние
  the act of impairing integrity

  corruption /kəɹˈʌpʃən/ 
  podplácení

  corruption /kəɹˈʌpʃən/ 
  korupce

  corruption /kəɹˈʌpʃən/ 
  llwgr 

  corruption /kəɹˈʌpʃən/
  Bestechung , Korruption , Käuflichkeit 
   see: corruptions
  

  corruption /kəɹˈʌpʃən/
  Verballhornung 
        "Sekander is a corruption of the first name Alexander."  - Sekander ist eine Verballhornung des Vornamens Alexander.
     Synonyms: bowdlerization, bowdlerisation
  

  corruption /kəɹˈʌpʃən/
   [moral] Verkommenheit , Verdorbenheit , Verderbtheit  [veraltend] , Verderbnis  [veraltet]
        "corruption of morals"  - Sittenverkommenheit, Sittenverderbnis
     Synonyms: corruptness, depravity, squalidness
  
   see: moral corruption
  

  corruption /kəɹˈʌpʃən/
   [archaic] Verwesung  [biol.]
     Synonyms: putrefaction, putrescence, decomposition, decay
  

  corruption /kəɹˈʌpʃən/
  
  ξεμαύλισμα, μαύλισμα, διαφθορά, εκμαυλισμός

  corruption //kəˈɹʌpʃən// 
  1. korruptio 2.
  (computing) the destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media
   3.
  the act of impairing integrity
  2. lahjonta
  seeking bribes

  corruption /kəɹˈʌpʃən/ 
  1. भ्रष्टाचार
        "There is rampant corruption in government offices."

  corruption /kəɹˈʌpʃən/
  korupcija, korupcije, mito, podmićivanje

  corruption /kəɹˈʌpʃən/
  1. vesztegetés
  2. romlottság
  3. feslettség
  4. elrontás
  5. romlás
  6. megvesztegetés
  7. lealjasodás
  8. elromlás
  9. rothadás
  10. romlott kiejtés
  11. romlott alak
  12. megrontás
  13. korrupció
  14. erkölcsi rontás
  15. megromlás
  16. bomlás
  17. korhadás
  18. züllöttség

  corruption //kəˈɹʌpʃən// 
  1. korupsi, penyuapan, rasuah
  seeking bribes
  2. korupsi
  the act of impairing integrity

  corruption //kəˈɹʌpʃən// 
  1. 堕落, 汚職, 腐敗
  2. 汚職, 涜職
  seeking bribes

  corruption /kəɹˈʌpʃən/ 
  corrupção

  corruption /kərʌpʃən/
  1. corrupción
  2. deterioración, putrefacción

  corruption //kəˈɹʌpʃən// 
  korruption 2.
  seeking bribes
   3.
  the act of impairing integrity

  corruption /koʁypsjˈɔ̃/
  breinadur, gwastadur

   (langue) corruption /koʁypsjˈɔ̃/
  trefoedadur (trefoedadurioù /tʁəfoədadyʁjˈu/)

   (moral) corruption /koʁypsjˈɔ̃/
  prenadur (prenadurioù /pʁənadyʁjˈu/)

   (viande...) corruption /koʁypsjˈɔ̃/
  linkradur (linkradurioù /lɛ̃kʁadyʁjˈu/), kontronadur (kontronadurioù /kɔ̃tʁonadyʁjˈu/)

  corruption /kɔ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃/ 
  корупция
  Action de corrompre

  corruption /kɔ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃/ 
  1. Korruption
  Action de corrompre
  2. Verwesung
  Altération de la substance d’une chose et putréfaction qui en résulte
  3. Bestechung
  Moyens que l’on emploie pour détourner quelqu’un de son devoir

  corruption /kɔ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃/ 
  διαφθορά
  Action de corrompre

  corruption /kɔ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃/ 
  corruzione
  Action de corrompre

  corruption /kɔ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃/ 
  corruptio
  Action de corrompre

  corruption /kɔ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃/ 
  korupcija 2.
  Action de corrompre
   3.
  Altération de la substance d’une chose et putréfaction qui en résulte
   4.
  Moyens que l’on emploie pour détourner quelqu’un de son devoir

  corruption /kɔ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃/ 
  korupcja
  Action de corrompre

  corruption /kɔ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃/ 
  corrupção
  Action de corrompre

  corruption /kɔ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃/ 
  коррупция
  Action de corrompre

  corruption /kɔ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃/ 
  corrupción
  Action de corrompre

  corruption /kɔ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃/ 
  korruption
  Action de corrompre

  
/kɝˈəpʃən/

  206 Moby Thesaurus words for "corruption":
     abandon, abandonment, abjection, abomination, abuse of terms,
     acrostic, adulteration, alienation, amphibologism, amphiboly,
     anagram, antiphrasis, atrocity, bad, bane, barbarism, bastardizing,
     befouling, befoulment, biodegradability, biodegradation, blight,
     brainwashing, breakup, bribery, bribery and corruption, bribing,
     cacoepy, cacology, calembour, carrion, college of Laputa,
     colloquialism, contamination, corrosion, corruptedness,
     corruptness, counterindoctrination, criminality, crookedness,
     crying evil, cutting, damage, dandruff, debasement, decadence,
     decadency, decay, decomposition, defilement, degeneracy,
     degenerateness, degeneration, degradability, degradation,
     demoralization, depravation, depravedness, depravity, despoliation,
     destruction, detriment, deviousness, dilapidation, dilution,
     dishonesty, dishonor, disintegration, disorganization,
     dissoluteness, dissolution, doctoring, envenoming, equivocality,
     equivoque, evasiveness, evil, excrement, false coloring,
     feloniousness, festering, filth, fortifying, foul matter, fouling,
     fraudulence, fraudulency, furfur, gammacism, gangrene, graft,
     grievance, harm, havoc, hurt, ill, improbity, impropriety,
     indirection, indoctrination, infection, infelicity, injury,
     jeu de mots, lacing, lambdacism, localism, logogram, logogriph,
     malapropism, mess, metagram, mildew, mischief, misconstruction,
     misdirection, misguidance, misinformation, misinstruction,
     misinterpretation, misknowledge, misleading, mispronunciation,
     misrepresentation, missaying, misspeaking, misteaching, misusage,
     misuse, mold, moral pollution, moral turpitude, muck, mucus,
     mystification, mytacism, obfuscation, obscenity, obscurantism,
     obscuration, ordure, outrage, oxidation, oxidization, palindrome,
     paralambdacism, pararhotacism, paronomasia, perversion,
     play on words, poison, poisoning, pollution, profligacy,
     prostitution, pun, punning, pus, putrid matter, reindoctrination,
     reprobacy, resolution, rhotacism, rot, rottenness, rust, scurf,
     scuz, shadiness, shiftiness, slang, slanting, slime, slipperiness,
     smut, snot, solecism, sophistry, sordes, spiking, spoilage,
     spoonerism, straining, subornation, subversion, suppuration,
     taboo word, the worst, torturing, toxin, trickiness, turpitude,
     unconscientiousness, underhandedness, ungrammaticism, unsavoriness,
     unscrupulousness, unstraightforwardness, venom, vexation,
     vitiation, vulgarism, watering, woe, wordplay, wrong
  
  

  n. 腐败,堕落,贪污;

     n. 腐败,堕落,贪污