as in rotten
having undergone organic breakdown
corrupted corpses that sickened the animal control officers sent to investigate
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as in decomposed
to go through decomposition
a dead mouse corrupting in the walls produced a terrible smell
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as in degraded
to lower in character, dignity, or quality
some observers believe that grossly violent movies corrupt the people who watch them as well as the people who make them
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as in bribed
to influence someone with a bribe
he bragged about having corrupted half of the officials on the city council
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Recent Examples of corrupted
Chongwei Chen, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Signalis’s radio-receiver module is reminiscent of Metal Gear Solid’s radio conversations, and players will need to utilize it to unlock safes and fight against corrupted enemies.
—George Yang, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
Driver or update problems Occasionally, outdated or corrupted mouse and graphics drivers can cause the pointer to flicker, freeze, or vanish.
—Ken Colburn, AZCentral.com, 1 Sep. 2025
With this ominous elegy of corrupted youth, the LiveLeak generation meets its Los Olvidados.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
Bart Jansen, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
Of course, what that sets up, in the game of Survivor, is someone ready to be corrupted.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
The last generation of revolutionaries was corrupted by the system.
—Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
The baffling Windows 11 update bug that corrupted SSDs now appears to be linked to storage drives running pre-release firmware.
—PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
There’s a lingering question of whether Dance Mom was a fraud from the beginning or if she gets corrupted as a result of becoming famous overnight as a regular guest on Late Night.
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2025
This new Onimusha adventure takes place in Edo-era Kyoto, except its overrun and corrupted by some disgusting creatures and horrible, infected energy.
—David Jagneaux, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
The chances that the data would be corrupted three times is very unlikely, Kinget points out.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Aug. 2025
Adjective
Backups can become corrupted over time and be useless if this happens.
—Chongwei Chen, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Signalis’s radio-receiver module is reminiscent of Metal Gear Solid’s radio conversations, and players will need to utilize it to unlock safes and fight against corrupted enemies.
—George Yang, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
Driver or update problems Occasionally, outdated or corrupted mouse and graphics drivers can cause the pointer to flicker, freeze, or vanish.
—Ken Colburn, AZCentral.com, 1 Sep. 2025
With this ominous elegy of corrupted youth, the LiveLeak generation meets its Los Olvidados.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
Democrats and civil libertarians said Trump corrupted the system of justice by getting involved.
—Bart Jansen, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
Of course, what that sets up, in the game of Survivor, is someone ready to be corrupted.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
The last generation of revolutionaries was corrupted by the system.
—Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
The baffling Windows 11 update bug that corrupted SSDs now appears to be linked to storage drives running pre-release firmware.
—PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
There’s a lingering question of whether Dance Mom was a fraud from the beginning or if she gets corrupted as a result of becoming famous overnight as a regular guest on Late Night.
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2025
This new Onimusha adventure takes place in Edo-era Kyoto, except its overrun and corrupted by some disgusting creatures and horrible, infected energy.
—David Jagneaux, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
The chances that the data would be corrupted three times is very unlikely, Kinget points out.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for corrupted
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Lit candles, images on paper and a plaster statue of the folk saint Gauchito Gil, flowers in green plastic bottles, simple bouquets of jasmine floating in rotten water inside coffee cans, a lot of plastic flowers to keep the place colorful.—
Mariana Enriquez
October 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Oct. 2025
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The Karen Read case exposed just how rotten the Bay State justice system can be.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
29 Sep. 2025
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The first was that the obstacles were decomposed into cuboids.—
Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
25 Sep. 2025
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Rivas’ cause and manner of death are still being determined by the medical examiner; the exam is taking longer than usual as the remains were severely decomposed.—
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Sep. 2025
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But warming ocean temperatures, rising sea levels, disease and human activity, such as pollution, have severely degraded Florida's reefs, according to the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
1 Oct. 2025
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Which is good news, because there’s no question that the general imaginative environment has degraded significantly.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
30 Sep. 2025
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In May, Coinbase revealed that cybercriminals had bribed a few of its overseas customer support agents to leak customers' personal data.—
Liz Napolitano,
CNBC,
19 Sep. 2025
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Officials allege that Bester bribed several prison employees into helping with his escape plan, including conning his way into an isolation cell that was located near a fire escape and in an area with limited cameras, per the docuseries, NBC News and GroundUp.—
Jordana Comiter,
PEOPLE,
17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Their party gets spoiled when a CCTV camera operator calls to inform the police.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
30 Sep. 2025
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Look who the spoiled brats are, relatively speaking.—
Grant Brisbee,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
Verb
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His body has barely decayed, and his hair and teeth are still intact.—
Raquel Reichard,
Refinery29,
24 Sep. 2025
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But Iran’s model decayed even in places where Israel and the United States had not attacked for some time.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The Panthers are weakened without starting running back Chuba Hubbard.—
Mike Kaye,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Oct. 2025
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Confidence in business conditions and job availability has weakened sharply, raising concerns that the spending power underpinning corporate growth could falter.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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The novel opens as the teenage Karl Rossmann, whose parents shipped him off to America for fathering a child when he was seduced by the family’s thirty-five-year-old cook, arrives on a steamer in New York harbor and sees the Statue of Liberty holding not the emblematic torch but rather a sword.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Oct. 2025
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Her distinctive style stance has seduced the likes of Addison Rae, Ice Spice, Kylie Jenner, Hari Nef, Selena Gomez, Hailey Bieber, Chloë Sevigny and Sarah Jessica Parker.—
Alex Wynne,
Footwear News,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Corrupted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corrupted. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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