different between corrupt vs degrade
corrupt
English
Alternative forms
- corrumpt (archaic)
- corrump (obsolete)
- corroupt (rare)
Etymology
From Middle English corrupten, derived from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrump?, corrumpere (“to destroy, ruin, injure, spoil, corrupt, bribe”), from com- (“together”) + rumpere (“to break in pieces”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k????pt/
- Rhymes: -?pt
Adjective
corrupt (comparative more corrupt, superlative most corrupt)
- In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
- The government here is corrupt, so we'll emigrate to escape them.
- The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
- Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
- The text of the manuscript is corrupt.
- It turned out that the program was corrupt - that's why it wouldn't open.
- In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
- with such corrupt and pestilent bread to feed them.
Usage notes
- Nouns to which "corrupt" is often applied: practice, state, country, nation, regime, city, government, person, man, politician, leader, mayor, judge, member, minister, file, database, document, woman.
Synonyms
- corrupted
Translations
Verb
corrupt (third-person singular simple present corrupts, present participle corrupting, simple past and past participle corrupted)
- (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
- And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
- (archaic, intransitive) To become putrid, tainted, or otherwise impure; to putrefy; to rot.
- he entrails, which are the parts aptest to corrupt
- To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify.
- To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
- Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt.
Translations
Related terms
- corruptible
- corruption
- incorruptible
References
- corrupt in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- corrupt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin corruptus or from Middle French corrupt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??r?pt/
- Hyphenation: cor?rupt
- Rhymes: -?pt
Adjective
corrupt (comparative corrupter, superlative corruptst)
- corrupt (lacking integrity, being prone to discriminating, open to bribes, etc.)
- (textual criticism) corrupt (containing (many) errors)
- deprave, morally corrupt
Inflection
Related terms
- corrumperen
- corruptie
Descendants
- Afrikaans: korrup
- ? Indonesian: korup
- ? West Frisian: korrupt
Middle French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin corruptus.
Adjective
corrupt m (feminine singular corrupte, masculine plural corrupts, feminine plural corruptes)
- corrupt (impure; not in its original form)
corrupt From the web:
- what corrupt mean
- what corrupted saruman
- what corrupts an sd card
- what corrupted eggs am i missing
- what corrupted macbeth
- what corrupts a hard drive
- what corrupts leaders
- what corrupts a file
degrade
English
Etymology
From Middle French dégrader
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d????e?d/, /di???e?d/
- Rhymes: -e?d
Verb
degrade (third-person singular simple present degrades, present participle degrading, simple past and past participle degraded)
- (transitive) To lower in value or social position.
- 1859-1890, John G. Palfrey, History of New England to the Revolutionary War
- Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar.
- 1859-1890, John G. Palfrey, History of New England to the Revolutionary War
- (intransitive, ergative) To reduce in quality or purity.
- (transitive, geology) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.
Derived terms
- degradation
Translations
Portuguese
Verb
degrade
- first-person singular present subjunctive of degradar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of degradar
- third-person singular imperative of degradar
Spanish
Verb
degrade
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of degradar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of degradar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of degradar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of degradar.
degrade From the web:
- what degrades mrna
- what degrades proteins
- what degrades acetylcholine
- what degrades dna
- what degrades camp
- what degrades rna
- what degrade mean
- what degrades fibrin
you may also like
- corrupt vs degrade
- contemptible vs offensive
- undaunted vs plucky
- whoop vs blow
- smirch vs spot
- arrangement vs designation
- class vs branch
- level vs true
- serious vs detrimental
- musical vs lilting
- outlander vs newcomer
- very vs singularly
- tag vs stamp
- crucial vs perilous
- speculative vs doubtful
- rapid vs winged
- chilliness vs coolness
- liability vs charge
- specious vs unprofitable
- generalship vs manipulation