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corruption

English

  1. 🔊 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”
  2. 🔊 destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty
    “corruption of a minor”
  3. 🔊 moral perversion
    “the luxury and corruption among the upper classes”
  4. 🔊 decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
  5. 🔊 lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery)
  6. 🔊 in a state of progressive putrefaction

Spanish

  1. 🔊 chorizo corruption
  2. 🔊 corruptela corruption
  3. 🔊 estrago corruption
  4. 🔊 tejemaneje corruption, graft
  5. 🔊 corrupción corruption, decay, rot
  6. 🔊 muladar corruption, source of corruption

Similar words

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