<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act of corrupting or state of being corrupt</li><li>moral perversion; depravity</li><li>perversion of integrity</li><li>corrupt or dishonest proceedings</li><li>debasement or alteration, as of language or a text</li><li>a debased form of a word</li><li>putrefactive decay; rottenness</li><li>any corrupting influence or agency</li><li>the state of being compromised by errors in computer code or stored data, or an action that causes such errors</li></ul>