corruption   (Sound)

The noun corruption has 6 senses

• corruptness, corruption -- (lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain)


• putrescence, putridness, rottenness, corruption -- (in a state of progressive putrefaction)


• corruption -- (decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation))


• corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefaction -- (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"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction")


• corruption, subversion -- (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")


• corruption -- (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")