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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Corrupt \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 [language], 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.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  corrupted
       adj 1: containing errors or alterations; "a corrupt text"; "spoke a
              corrupted version of the language" [syn: {corrupt}]
       2: ruined in character or quality [syn: {debased}, {vitiated}]

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