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1. Oxford Dictionary

   corruption

   • IPA[kəˈrʌpʃn]

   英式

   • n.
     dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery；the action or effect of making someone or something morally depraved

   • noun: corruption, plural noun: corruptions

2. • 釋義

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery the journalist who wants to expose corruption in high places 同義詞 dishonesty, dishonest dealings, unscrupulousness, deceit, deception, ... 更多duplicity, double-dealing, fraud, fraudulence, misconduct, lawbreaking, crime, criminality, delinquency, wrongdoing, villainy, bribery, bribing, subornation, venality, graft, extortion, jobbery, profiteering, payola, informalcrookedness, shadiness, sleaze, palm-greasing, malfeasance, misfeasance, archaicknavery, raremalversation反義詞 honesty
   • ▪ the action or effect of making someone or something morally depraved the corruption of youth was a powerful motif the word ‘addict’ conjures up evil and corruption 同義詞 sin, sinfulness, ungodliness, unrighteousness, profanity, ... 更多impiety, impurity, immorality, depravity, vice, iniquity, turpitude, degeneracy, perversion, pervertedness, debauchery, dissolution, dissoluteness, decadence, profligacy, wantonness, indecency, lasciviousness, lewdness, lechery, wickedness, evil, baseness, vileness反義詞 morality, purity
   • 2. the process by which a word or expression is changed from its original state to one regarded as erroneous or debased a record of a word's corruption the term ‘hobgoblin’ is thought to be a corruption of ‘Robgoblin’ 同義詞 alteration, falsification, doctoring, manipulation, manipulating, ... 更多fudging, adulteration, debasement, degradation, abuse, subversion, misrepresentation, misapplication, rarevitiation
   • ▪ the process by which a computer database or program becomes debased by alteration or the introduction of errors this procedure creates a temporary file to prevent accidental corruption
   • 3. archaic the process of decay; putrefaction the potato turned black and rotten with corruption