Clues for the word "CORRUPT"
We've had 16 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 22 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on June 19, 2025.
Definition of corrupt
- a. - Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
- a. - Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges.
- a. - Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.
- v. t. - To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.
- v. t. - To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile.
- v. t. - To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe.
- v. t. - To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text.
- v. t. - To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
- v. i. - To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
- v. i. - To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness.
Referring Clues
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - June 19, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 14, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 15, 2023
- Netword - November 03, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - July 21, 2017
- Mirror Quick - June 04, 2017
- Mirror Quick - June 04, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - September 02, 2016
- Jonesin - March 15, 2016
- Guardian Quick - September 02, 2015
- Guardian Everyman - August 30, 2015
- LA Times - March 13, 2015
- LA Times - January 18, 2015
- Washington Post - November 28, 2013
- Universal - October 03, 2012
- Onion A.V. Club - May 04, 2011
- Netword - March 27, 2010
- Guardian Quick - July 26, 2009
- Family Time - September 14, 2008
- Netword - August 04, 2006
- New York Times - May 31, 2002
- Guardian Cryptic - September 14, 1999