corrupt
US /kəˈrʌpt/
・UK /kə'rʌpt/
B1
verb
- To persuade someone to act illegal or immorally
- To cause to become damaged or spoiled
- To lack integrity or be dishonest
adjective
- Being damaged or spoiled
- (Of data or a computer file) having errors or alterations that make it unusable.
- Misusing power, as by taking bribes, to get rich
- Guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity.
- Dishonest or immoral.
other
- To cause (data or a computer file) to become damaged or unusable.
- To cause to become dishonest or immoral; to pervert or ruin the purity of.
Examples
The whole regime is thoroughly corrupt.
one of the most notoriously corrupt city councils