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
Tasha Robinson,
Vulture,
29 May 2026
His corrupted Justice Department sought to get Peters sprung from Colorado prison, presumably to set her loose from a federal facility.
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Mark Barabak,
Mercury News,
28 May 2026
Now imagine that kind of corrupted, perverted system of justice writ large.
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Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2026
Every subsequent read of the file sees the corrupted version, even though the attacker only ever had read access.
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Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
11 May 2026
This means their control of a corrupted American political system will have ramifications worldwide.
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Elizabeth Shackelford,
Twin Cities,
7 May 2026
Journey across the world as Kena, a spirit guide who partners with magical critters called Rot to cleanse a corrupted land.
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George Yang,
PC Magazine,
1 May 2026
This means their control of a corrupted American political system will have ramifications worldwide.
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Elizabeth Shackelford,
Chicago Tribune,
1 May 2026
Her work plainly belongs to this lineage of witchy writers, women whose deliciously corrupted scenes of home and hearth produce fear and wild laughter at once.
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Kristen Roupenian,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
John Wall,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
And then Grisebach uses that distaff twist once again, to comment more broadly on the patriarchal nature and gendered violence of power structures corrupted by historical conflict.
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Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
22 May 2026
The Arch of Nero both honored republicanism and warned that it was being corrupted by the war and, inevitably, its aftermath.
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Tyler Green,
The Atlantic,
21 May 2026
At first, the gorgeous ripe berries are evidence of how perfect our planet can be, corrupted only by the selfish impulses of a human race that’s largely uninterested in caring for anything on it when there isn’t a profit to be made.
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Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
18 May 2026
An independent redistricting commission — transparent, balanced and insulated from the very political pressures that have corrupted this process.
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Daryl Campbell,
Sun Sentinel,
6 May 2026
In an era when youth sports can sometimes feel corrupted by money, pressure and adult ego, the Lee Corso Legacy Fund serves as a reminder of what sports are supposed to be about in the first place.
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Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 May 2026
Under eclipses, artifacts will also be corrupted and have drawbacks that can be cleansed by beating the world’s Overlord.
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Gieson Cacho,
Mercury News,
30 Apr. 2026
However, what the young Valdi captures on these early scenes is the sense that whatever love Michael had for music and performance had become immediately corrupted.
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Paul A. Thompson,
Pitchfork,
27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
Clark has a lot in common with Sam Neill’s corrupted scientist in Event Horizon.
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Tasha Robinson,
Vulture,
29 May 2026
His corrupted Justice Department sought to get Peters sprung from Colorado prison, presumably to set her loose from a federal facility.
—
Mark Barabak,
Mercury News,
28 May 2026
Now imagine that kind of corrupted, perverted system of justice writ large.
—
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2026
Every subsequent read of the file sees the corrupted version, even though the attacker only ever had read access.
—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
11 May 2026
This means their control of a corrupted American political system will have ramifications worldwide.
—
Elizabeth Shackelford,
Twin Cities,
7 May 2026
Journey across the world as Kena, a spirit guide who partners with magical critters called Rot to cleanse a corrupted land.
—
George Yang,
PC Magazine,
1 May 2026
This means their control of a corrupted American political system will have ramifications worldwide.
—
Elizabeth Shackelford,
Chicago Tribune,
1 May 2026
Her work plainly belongs to this lineage of witchy writers, women whose deliciously corrupted scenes of home and hearth produce fear and wild laughter at once.
—
Kristen Roupenian,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
Verb
Systems must remain safe not only when components fail naturally, but when data is corrupted, communication is interrupted or execution is violated.
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John Wall,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
And then Grisebach uses that distaff twist once again, to comment more broadly on the patriarchal nature and gendered violence of power structures corrupted by historical conflict.
—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
22 May 2026
The Arch of Nero both honored republicanism and warned that it was being corrupted by the war and, inevitably, its aftermath.
—
Tyler Green,
The Atlantic,
21 May 2026
At first, the gorgeous ripe berries are evidence of how perfect our planet can be, corrupted only by the selfish impulses of a human race that’s largely uninterested in caring for anything on it when there isn’t a profit to be made.
—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
18 May 2026
An independent redistricting commission — transparent, balanced and insulated from the very political pressures that have corrupted this process.
—
Daryl Campbell,
Sun Sentinel,
6 May 2026
In an era when youth sports can sometimes feel corrupted by money, pressure and adult ego, the Lee Corso Legacy Fund serves as a reminder of what sports are supposed to be about in the first place.
—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 May 2026
Under eclipses, artifacts will also be corrupted and have drawbacks that can be cleansed by beating the world’s Overlord.
—
Gieson Cacho,
Mercury News,
30 Apr. 2026
However, what the young Valdi captures on these early scenes is the sense that whatever love Michael had for music and performance had become immediately corrupted.
—
Paul A. Thompson,
Pitchfork,
27 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for corrupted
Adjective
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To be fair, the DCEU, the preceding web of films, had nearly half of its movies land rotten scores.
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Big Red might be a braggart, a bully and rotten to the core, but Lasdun invokes Thomas De Quincey’s neat point about how a man’s capacity to rob says nothing about his propensity to murder.
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Remains of dogs too decomposed to be recovered were also found in the same field, the sheriff's office said.
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Every project should be decomposed into tasks, with explicit categorization of which are human, AI or hybrid.
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Its arsenal of ballistic missiles has been degraded.
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LiDAR can be degraded by heavy precipitation.
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The Nazis ordered the case closed after six months, and a local official was allegedly bribed to record his death as an accident to ensure Sindelar would have a state funeral.
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Two months later, chairman Lord Triesman, who passed away earlier this year, was forced to quit after being recorded speculating about referees being bribed at the World Cup.
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Blyth was nominated in the supporting role as Mildred's spoiled daughter, Veda, who seduces her mother's second husband (Zachary Scott), then riddles him with bullets in a jealous rage.
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Idling trucks, sandbag piles and large metal trailers stationed around a massive cold storage facility that burned for days in Boyle Heights signaled that the work to clean up millions of pounds of spoiled food and burned debris had begun Friday morning.
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In order to have aqueous alteration there needs to be some internal heating [usually via radioactive elements] and if something forms later than everything else then there will be less heat [since many of the radioactive elements will have already decayed].
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But since sitting vacant, the property has decayed and listed in city property records as unoccupiable.
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The decision weakened the federal Voting Rights Act’s protections against racially discriminatory redistricting.
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Brexit’s tortuous complexity weakened governance and led to parliamentary deadlock.
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So instead of Syrax, the Blacks get close air support from Jace on Vermax and Moondancer, ridden by Baela, who is easily seduced into battle by Jace’s unchecked hero complex.
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One class in, and Hannah is thoroughly seduced both by Melanie’s flattery and by her therapyspeak approach to acting, with its talk of truth-telling and connecting to one’s body.
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