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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
--1 is a kind of dishonesty
--1 has particulars: infection; venality; jobbery
- putrescence, putridness, rottenness, corruption - in a state of progressive putrefaction
--2 is a kind of putrefaction, rot
- corruption - decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
--3 is a kind of decay
- corruption, degeneracy, depravity - 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"
--4 is a kind of immorality
- 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"
--5 is a kind of degradation, debasement
- 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"
--6 is a kind of inducement, inducing
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