■ adjective
1》 willing to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain.
↘evil or morally depraved.
2》 (of a text or a computer database or program) made unreliable by errors or alterations.
3》 archaic rotten or putrid.
■ verb
1》 make ~: he was ~ed by power.
2》 debase (a text, database, etc.) by introducing errors.
3》 archaic infect or contaminate.
Derivatives
~er noun
~ibility noun
~ible adjective
~ive adjective
~ly adverb
Origin
ME: from L. ~- , corrumpere 'mar, bribe, destroy', from cor- 'altogether' + rumpere 'to break'.