to corrupt is a form of:
Corrupt
- 1.
- អសីលធម៌, មិនបរិសុទ្ធ
- 2.
- (FIGURATIVE) ក្លៀវក្លម, នាំខូច, បង្ខូច (បំបែកចេញពីករណីយកិច្ចខ្លួន)
noun
- 1.
- អ្នកស៊ីសំណូក, ទុរាចារ, គ្មានគុណធម៌, មនុស្សខូច
adjective
- 1.
- ពុករលួយ
- 2.
- (Dishonest, accepting bribes, depraved, taking bribes) ដែលស្រេក, ដែលប្រែ (សំឡេង) corrupt politician ដែលពុករលួយ, corrupt version ដែលកែប្រែ
Example: Before my uncle became mayor and cleaned things up, this town had the moat corrupt officials you
verb — past tense: corrupted ; past participle: corrupted ; present participle: corrupting ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) (To make or become corrupt) ធ្វើឱ្យខូច, ធ្វើឱ្យអាក្រក់, ធ្វើឱ្យរលួយ, ធ្វើវិភេទ, ក្លែងនាំឱ្យស្រេក
Example: A corrupt government, to corrupt a Judge or government official, a corrupt life, Bad companions corrupted his morals. - 2.
- (INTRANSITIVE) ទៅជាពុករលួយ
Example: The gangsters used money, then threats, to try to corrupt the police chief.
ENGLISH MEANING
adjective
- 1.
- Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
- 2.
- Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges.
- 3.
- Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.
verb — past tense: corrupted ; past participle: corrupted ; present participle: corrupting ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile.
- 3.
- (TRANSITIVE) To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe.
- 4.
- (TRANSITIVE) To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text.
- 5.
- (TRANSITIVE) To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
- 6.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
- 7.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness.
- 1.
- abase, adulterate, alloy, contaminate, debase, defile, degrade, deprave, disgrace, dishonor, impair, infect, lower, pervert, spoil, taint, undermine, vitiate
- 2.
- contaminated, corrupted, crooked, debased, depraved, dishonest, fraudulent, impure, profligate, putrid, spoiled, tainted, unsound, venal, vitiated