corrupt

Everyday

1. Corrupt means dishonest or wicked. tree →
2. Corrupt can mean rotten or gone bad, as food does. tree →
3. To corrupt is to make someone bad or dishonest, or to spoil something. tree →

In the lessons

in tales, a dishonest person, a bad example that spoils others, or a body or fruit that has rotted away.

Examples

• The corrupt judge took money to be unfair. tree →
• A bad example can corrupt the other children. tree →
• The meat was corrupt and smelled horrible. tree →

Note

nothing for maths.

In Jewish tradition

In the story of the flood it means that people had become violent and unjust, so the earth was ruined in God's sight.

Interpretation. The rabbis said the generation of the flood was sealed by theft and violence, and that the corruption included sexual wrongdoing and idol worship.

Examples

• And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. (Torah GEN.6.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. (Torah GEN.6.12, JPS 1917) tree →
• They are all corrupt, they are together become impure; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. (Writings PSA.14.3, JPS 1917) tree →
• And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall be corrupt by blandishments; but the people that know their God shall show strength, and prevail. (Writings DAN.11.32, JPS 1917) tree →
• And her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her doting than she, and in her harlotries more than her sister in her harlotries. (Prophets EZK.23.11, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

nothing for maths.