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
Ken Colburn, AZCentral.com, 1 Sep. 2025
The mystery of failing SSD drives and corrupted data when saving large files — especially, some claimed, games.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
With this ominous elegy of corrupted youth, the LiveLeak generation meets its Los Olvidados.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 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
Driver or update problems Occasionally, outdated or corrupted mouse and graphics drivers can cause the pointer to flicker, freeze, or vanish.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
The mystery of failing SSD drives and corrupted data when saving large files — especially, some claimed, games.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
With this ominous elegy of corrupted youth, the LiveLeak generation meets its Los Olvidados.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
Wallets, coins, and rings are carelessly passed around this little society, and messages are corrupted—from Orsino’s wooing of Olivia, which is accidentally undone by his own go-between, Viola, to the letters that deceive Malvolio.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 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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Horrible Bosses When three friends — played by Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis — regroup after a terrible day at their respective jobs, the fed-up employees drunkenly conspire to murder their seriously rotten employers and attempt to follow through.—
James Mercadante,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
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He was once asked to accept a dead whale; another time, an entire shipping container of rotten garlic.—
Kyra Morris,
The Atlantic,
22 Aug. 2025
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Woolf's remains were found unclothed and partially decomposed near the San Joaquin trailhead in Tucson in December 2024.—
Wren Smetana,
AZCentral.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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The body had decomposed, but the uniform the person was wearing and other equipment was well-preserved, L’Adige reported.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
26 Aug. 2025
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Long-term drought has degraded the old-growth forest where the squirrels live.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Thioesters and early chemistry Earlier efforts to attach amino acids to RNA had relied on highly reactive compounds that quickly degraded in water and caused amino acids to clump together rather than bind to RNA.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Aug. 2025
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Reviewing fake CDLs experts say are sometimes issued by unscrupulous American trucking schools or bribed Mexican bureaucrats.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
26 Aug. 2025
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But the vast majority of officials caught stealing, being bribed or taking kickbacks become footnotes in local history, with the cost of the graft passed on to taxpayers.—
Joe Mahr,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Dec. 2024
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Here’s how to get money for spoiled groceries when the food in your refrigerator is compromised during a power outage.—
Kristine Gill,
Better Homes & Gardens,
3 Sep. 2025
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The President is a child who doesn't like his ego to be hurt, a spoiled child.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Aug. 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
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Within the next 18 days, the new short July 25 90/115 strangle would be worth only 46 cents, also having decayed by more than 80% of the value when the trade was initiated, at which point a trader could have rolled the short strangle yet again.—
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
18 Aug. 2025
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The problem is that what gets cut isn’t always cosmetic, and sometimes the very safeguards designed to block harmful outputs, such as hate speech or criminal instructions, are weakened or lost.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, the latest jobs report confirmed that the labor market weakened sharply over the spring and summer and that sectors most affected by tariffs have seen the biggest losses.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
7 Sep. 2025
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Technology plays a role, but Hughes cautions against being seduced by high-profile projects at the expense of less visible but more foundational work.—
Felicia Jackson,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Armisen voices a number of droll characters and is hilariously — and fittingly — deadpan as the figure of Death who becomes seduced by show biz via a clever agent (Kind).—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
23 Dec. 2024
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“Corrupted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corrupted. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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