corruptとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English corrupten, derived from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpō, corrumpere (“to destroy, ruin, injure, spoil, corrupt, bribe”), from com- (“together”) + rumpere (“to break in pieces”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /kəˈɹʌpt/
• 韻: -ʌpt

形容詞

corrupt (comparative more corrupt, superlative most corrupt)

1. In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.

   The government here is corrupt, so we'll emigrate to escape them.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 6:11:

     The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

   • 1613, William Shakespeare; [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:

2. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.

   The text of the manuscript is corrupt.

   It turned out that the program was corrupt - that's why it wouldn't open.

3. In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
   • (Can we date this quote by Knolles かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them.

使用する際の注意点

• Nouns to which "corrupt" is often applied: practice, state, country, nation, regime, city, government, person, man, politician, leader, mayor, judge, member, minister, file, database, document, woman.

同意語

• corrupted

動詞

corrupt (三人称単数 現在形 corrupts, 現在分詞 corrupting, 過去形および過去分詞形 corrupted)

1. (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.

   Don't you dare corrupt my son with those disgusting pictures!

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 6:12:

     And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

2. (intransitive) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

   • 1732, George Smith, Institutiones Chirurgicæ: or, Principles of Surgery, [...] To which is Annexed, a Chirurgical Dispensatory, [...], London: Printed [by William Bowyer] for Henry Lintot, at the Cross-Keys against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, OCLC 745299684, page 254:

     […] 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 (または rather cacoethic Ulcer) was thereby made, with which great Difficulty was cur'd."

3. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.

   to corrupt language, or a holy text

4. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 6:19:

     Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt.

関連する語

• corruptible
• corruption
• incorruptible

参照

• corrupt in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• corrupt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.