Word Meanings - CORRUPTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject

Additional info about word: CORRUPTION

1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to "generation". Bacon. 2. The product of corruption; putrid matter. 3. The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery. It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them. Hallam. They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days. Bancroft. Note: Corruption, when applied to officers, trustees, etc., signifies the inducing a violation of duty by means of pecuniary considerations. Abbott. 4. The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language. Corruption of blood , taint or impurity of blood, in consequence of an act of attainder of treason or felony, by which a person is disabled from inheriting any estate or from transmitting it to others. Corruption of blood can be removed only by act of Parliament. Blackstone. Syn. -- Putrescence; putrefaction; defilement; contamination; deprivation; debasement; adulteration; depravity; taint. See Depravity.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CORRUPTION)

• Decay
• Declension
• waning
• sinking
• wasting
• decrease
• corruption
• decadence
• putrefaction
• rottenness
• dry rot
• consumption
• decline
• Infection
• Taint
• poison
• contamination
• contagion
• malversation
• Malpractice
• Perversion
• Abuse
• misrepresentation
• distortion
• misinterpretation
• caricature
• sophistry
• Rot
• Putrefaction
• putrescence
• mouldiness
• mildew
• decay

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CORRUPTION)

• Rise
• grow
• increase
• flourish
• luxuriate
• vegetate
• expand
• enlarge
• Increase
• amplify
• augment
• extend

Related words: (words related to CORRUPTION)

• WASTING
  Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy , progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.
• WANTLESS
  Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• WANGER
  A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer.
• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• WANING
  The act or process of waning, or decreasing. This earthly moon, the Church, hath fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses. Bp. Hall.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• CONSUMPTION
  A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption. Consumption of the
• WAST
  The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; -- now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• WAN
  Won. Chaucer.
• PUTRESCENCE
  The state of being putrescent; putrescent matter.
• WANTWIT
  One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak.
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• WANDY
  Long and flexible, like a wand. Brockett.
• SINK
  sincan; akin to D. zinken, OS. sincan, G. sinken, Icel. sökkva, Dan. 1. To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• MOLDINESS; MOULDINESS
  The state of being moldy.
• SEAWAND
  See GIRDLES
• JUWANSA
  The camel's thorn. See under Camel.
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• SWANNERY
  A place where swans are bred. "The largest swannery in England." Encyc. Brit.
• ANGWANTIBO
  A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.