CORRUPTION as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony)
   Usage Example(s)
   • he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering
   Hypernyms(s) corruption is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • inducement (what does inducement mean?)
   • inducing (what does inducing mean?)
2. Meaning
   • destroying someone’’s (or some group’’s) honesty or loyalty
   • undermining moral integrity
   Synonym(s)
   • subversion (what does subversion mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • corruption of a minor
   • the big city’’s subversion of rural innocence
   Hypernyms(s) corruption is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • degradation (what does degradation mean?)
   • debasement (what does debasement mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • corrupt (what does corrupt mean?)
   • pervert (what does pervert mean?)
   • subvert (what does subvert mean?)
   • demoralize (what does demoralize mean?)
   • demoralise (what does demoralise mean?)
   • debauch (what does debauch mean?)
   • debase (what does debase mean?)
   • profane (what does profane mean?)
   • vitiate (what does vitiate mean?)
   • deprave (what does deprave mean?)
   • misdirect (what does misdirect mean?)
   • corrupt (what does corrupt mean?)
   • pervert (what does pervert mean?)
   • subvert (what does subvert mean?)
   • demoralize (what does demoralize mean?)
   • demoralise (what does demoralise mean?)
   • debauch (what does debauch mean?)
   • debase (what does debase mean?)
   • profane (what does profane mean?)
   • vitiate (what does vitiate mean?)
   • deprave (what does deprave mean?)
   • misdirect (what does misdirect mean?)
3. Meaning
   • moral perversion
   • impairment of virtue and moral principles
   • its opium parlors
   • its depravity”
   Synonym(s)
   • degeneracy (what does degeneracy mean?)
   • depravity (what does depravity mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • the luxury and corruption among the upper classes
   • moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration
   • its brothels
   Hypernyms(s) corruption is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • immorality (what does immorality mean?)
4. Meaning
   • lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery)
   • use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
   Synonym(s)
   • corruptness (what does corruptness mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) corruption is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • dishonesty (what does dishonesty mean?)
   Antonym(s)
   • incorruptness (what does incorruptness mean?)
   • incorruption (what does incorruption mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • infection (what does infection mean?)
   • venality (what does venality mean?)
   • jobbery (what does jobbery mean?)
   Attribute(s)
   • corrupt (what does corrupt mean?)
   • incorrupt (what does incorrupt mean?)
5. Meaning
   • decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
   Hypernyms(s) corruption is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • decay (what does decay mean?)
6. Meaning
   • in a state of progressive putrefaction
   Synonym(s)
   • putrescence (what does putrescence mean?)
   • putridness (what does putridness mean?)
   • rottenness (what does rottenness mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) corruption is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • putrefaction (what does putrefaction mean?)
   • rot (what does rot mean?)