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The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity
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The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
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The product of corruption; putrid matter.
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The decomposition of biological matter.
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The seeking of bribes.
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The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.
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The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct.
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a corruption of style
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A debased or nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, mishearing, etc.
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Something originally good or pure that has turned evil or impure; a perversion.