<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked.</li><li>Debased in character; depraved; perverted; wicked; evil.</li><li>(Of a text) made inferior by errors or alterations.</li><li>Infected; tainted.</li><li>Archaic: decayed; putrid.</li><li>Computers: relating to or designating computer code or stored data that contains errors.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>To destroy the integrity of; cause to be dishonest, disloyal, etc., especially by bribery.</li><li>To lower morally; pervert.</li><li>To alter (a language, text, etc.) for the worse; debase.</li><li>To mar; spoil.</li><li>To infect; taint.</li><li>Archaic: to make putrid or putrescent.</li><li>Computers: to introduce errors in (computer code or stored data) when saving, transmitting, or retrieving it.</li><li>English Law: (in historical use) to subject (an attainted person) to corruption of blood.</li><li>To become corrupt.</li></ul>