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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
corrupt
cor·rupt [corrupt corrupts corrupted corrupting] adjective, verb BrE [kəˈrʌpt] NAmE [kəˈrʌpt]
adjective
1. (of people)willing to use their power to do dishonest or illegal things in return for money or to get an advantage
•a corrupt regime
•corrupt officials accepting bribes
2. (of behaviour)dishonest or immoral
•corrupt practices
•The whole system is inefficient and corrupt.
3. (computing)containing changes or faults, and no longer in the original state
•corrupt software
•The text on the disk seems to be corrupt.
Word Origin:
Middle English: from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpere ‘mar, bribe, destroy’, from cor- ‘altogether’ + rumpere ‘to break’.
Thesaurus:
corrupt adj.
•a corrupt regime
unscrupulous • • amoral • |formal fraudulent • • unprincipled • |informal dirty • • rotten • |especially journalism crooked •
Opp: honest
corrupt/unscrupulous/amoral /fraudulent/unprincipled behaviour
a/an corrupt/unscrupulous/crooked businessman/lawyer/politician
a corrupt/rotten/crooked system
Corrupt or unscrupulous? Corrupt is often used to talk about the authorities or a system and people who work for them. Unscrupulous is often used to talk about people who manage their own businesses
•unscrupulous dealers/landlords
Example Bank:
•one of the most notoriously corrupt city councils
•It was seen as the only way to overthrow a corrupt regime.
•They had been engaged in corrupt practices.
•They promised to seek out the corrupt officials who had accepted the bribes.
Derived Word: ↑corruptly
verb
1. transitive ~ sb to have a bad effect on sb and make them behave in an immoral or dishonest way
•He was corrupted by power and ambition.
•the corrupting effects of great wealth
2. transitive, often passive ~ sth to change the original form of sth, so that it is damaged or spoiled in some way
•a corrupted form of Buddhism
3. transitive, intransitive ~ (sth) (computing)to cause mistakes to appear in a computer file, etc. with the result that the information in it is no longer correct
•The program has somehow corrupted the system files.
•corrupted data
•The disk will corrupt if it is overloaded.
Verb forms: 
Word Origin:
Middle English: from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpere ‘mar, bribe, destroy’, from cor- ‘altogether’ + rumpere ‘to break’.
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