• inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); "he was held on charges of Corruption and racketeering"
• destroying someone''s (or some group''s) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "Corruption of a minor"; "the big city''s subversion of rural innocence"
• moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and Corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels; its opium parlors; its depravity"
• lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
• decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
• in a state of progressive putrefaction

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