corrupt

1. (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.Examples: "Don't you dare corrupt my son with those disgusting pictures!"; "And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth."; "I think that there is a bad idea around in our world, and that idea is that 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely'. I think what really happens is that power attracts the corruptible."transitive

2. (archaic, intransitive) To become putrid, tainted, or otherwise impure; to putrefy; to rot.Examples: "he entrails, which are the parts aptest to corrupt"; "[…] Lanfrank takes Notice of Tract. 3. Doct. 3. cap. 18. ſaying, "I have ſeen many who being full of Humours, have made an Iſſue under the Knee, before due Purgation had been premis'd; whence, by reaſon of the too great Defluxion of Humours, the Legs tumified, ſo that the cauterized Place corrupted, and a Cancer (or rather cacoethic Ulcer) was thereby made, with which great Difficulty was cur'd.""archaicintransitive

3. (transitive) To introduce errors; to place into an invalid state.Examples: "Unplugging a flash drive without dismounting it first can corrupt the data stored on the drive."transitive