corrupted
/kəˈrʌptɪd/
verb
- Past tense of corrupt: made someone or something dishonest, immoral, or impure.
- The virus corrupted the data on the hard drive.
- Greed corrupted the businessman until he cheated his own partners.
- The dictator corrupted the police force by paying them to ignore crimes.
- Past tense of corrupt: changed the original form of something, making it incorrect or damaged.
- A power outage corrupted the document I was editing.
- Time and weather corrupted the old painting beyond repair.
- The hacker corrupted the website's database with false information.
adjective
- Dishonest or immoral, especially because of accepting bribes or using power for personal gain.
- A corrupted judge can destroy people's trust in the legal system.
- The corrupted official was arrested for taking money from contractors.
- Many citizens protested against the corrupted government leaders.
- Changed from its original, correct, or pure form, often in a harmful way.
- The ancient text was corrupted by repeated copying errors over centuries.
- A corrupted version of the software caused the system to crash.
- The file on my computer became corrupted and I lost all my work.
- Morally spoiled or made evil, especially by bad influences.
- The corrupted child had learned to lie and steal from older kids.
- She worried that the violent video games had left her brother corrupted.
- The once-kind leader became corrupted by greed and power.