CORRUPTED Synonyms: 176 Similar and Opposite Words

corrupted 1 of 2

adjective

as in rotten

having undergone organic breakdown corrupted corpses that sickened the animal control officers sent to investigate

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corrupted

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verb

past tense of corrupt

as in decomposed

to go through decomposition a dead mouse corrupting in the walls produced a terrible smell

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as in degraded

to lower in character, dignity, or quality some observers believe that grossly violent movies corrupt the people who watch them as well as the people who make them

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as in bribed

to influence someone with a bribe he bragged about having corrupted half of the officials on the city council

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Recent Examples of corrupted

Adjective

But the point was just that Nick’s character is emulating Sheridan’s poisonous corrupted values, and the internet is a vehicle for that relationship. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2026 Sponsors are not responsible for lost, late, incomplete or technically corrupted entries. — Sponsored Content, Baltimore Sun, 25 Aug. 2026 Incomplete, corrupted, untimely, or unintelligible Submissions or Submission Forms will be disqualified. — August 16, NPR, 16 Aug. 2026 The demon Rasho-gan has taken over the shrine and corrupted worshippers’ prayers. — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2026 The anime merely depicts a border spat between a few small nations, whereas the manga is more global in reach and also deals with much of the underlying mysteries of the corrupted world the characters now live in. — Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 Clark has a lot in common with Sam Neill’s corrupted scientist in Event Horizon. — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 29 May 2026 Now imagine that kind of corrupted, perverted system of justice writ large. — Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2026 Every subsequent read of the file sees the corrupted version, even though the attacker only ever had read access. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 11 May 2026

Verb

The audience is interacting with an object that had been scanned, that had been corrupted in some way. — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 29 Sep. 2026 Obama and Biden were corrupted by donors who wanted cheap labor. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2026 But, in Hagwon, Lee does not seem interested in the ways in which her diplomatic, kind, generous characters might be corrupted. — Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026 This may then seem like yet another story about how Trump has wrecked norms and corrupted the rule of law. — James Surowiecki, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026 The difference with those films is that all those guys came in corrupted by something or had something mentally going on. — Derek Lawrence, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Sep. 2026 As a result, the notion of utopia became increasingly associated with the sci-fi genre, while the idea of creating a perfect social order here on earth was corrupted by totalitarian regimes. — Carline Tromp, The Dial, 18 Aug. 2026 If Romance balanced the human and the corrupted, Dopamine Chamber deliberately tips the scales. — Spin Staff, SPIN, 18 Aug. 2026 Thomas Mann—who later changed his mind on such matters—believed that Germany in the First World War was fighting for its unique national soul against a shallow materialist Western civilization corrupted by rationalism. — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for corrupted

Adjective

Sometimes your potatoes will be not be super clean with little sprouts and little rotten bits that need to be cut off.

— Andy Baraghani, Bon Appetit Magazine, 6 Oct. 2026
He was filled with a sudden sense of hopelessness, a rotten sadness.

— Rachel Heng, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of rotten

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According to the nonprofit organization World Wildlife Fund, about 17 percent of the rainforest has been deforested, and about one-third of what remains has been degraded, including from the impacts of extreme drought.

— Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2026
The casing worked for the electrons but couldn’t keep protons at bay, which degraded the photon detectors.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of degraded

Verb

By automating tasks that once required human discretion, rulers can replace unreliable intermediaries with faithful algorithms that cannot be bribed or manipulated.

— Seva Gunitsky, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2026
The country’s largest wine and spirits distributor has entered into an agreement with federal prosecutors to resolve allegations that its executives and employees bribed alcohol retailers for favorable placement of certain products.

— Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of bribed

Adjective

Nearly six million people cast a blank or spoiled vote — including Alexandre Moreira, a 21-year-old university student.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026
The discrepancy in air time is a pain point West Coast viewers who are easily spoiled on social media about how couples fared.

— McKinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of spoiled

Verb

The resulting collisions formed excited compound nuclei that decayed through multiple gamma-ray steps.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Aug. 2026
In order to have aqueous alteration there needs to be some internal heating [usually via radioactive elements] and if something forms later than everything else then there will be less heat [since many of the radioactive elements will have already decayed].

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 June 2026

Definition of decayed

Verb

Isaias has weakened dramatically since making landfall last night as a Category 2 hurricane.

— Erika Angulo, NBC news, 11 Oct. 2026
Wide swaths of the Southwest were deluged Sunday as the remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel weakened and moved inland, but coastal communities already battered by high surf emerged with less damage than some officials feared.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of weakened

Verb

Armani’s languid silhouette soon seduced red- and blue-blooded men the world over.

— Robb Report, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026
The song is about a true story of three Dutch teenage girls in World War II, during the occupation, who seduced Nazi officers and murdered them in the woods.

— Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026

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