English-Thai Dictionary

corruption

N การ เน่าเปื่อย  การ เน่า  การ เน่า สลาย  decay rottenness kan-nao-peai

 

corruption

N การ ไม่ ซื่อสัตย์  dishonesty bribery kan-mai-sue-sad

 

corruption

N ความเสื่อมทราม  ความชั่วช้า  depravity kwam-sueam-sam

 

corruptionist

N คน ทุจริต  คนที่ ทำให้ ไม่ บริสุทธิ์  คนที่ กินสินบน หรือ ให้สินบน 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CORRUPTION

n.[L.] 1. The act of corrupting, or state of being corrupt or putrid; the destruction of the natural form of bodies, by the separation of the component parts, or by disorganization, in the process of putrefaction.
Thou wilt not suffer thy holy One to see corruption. Psalm 16:1 .
2. Putrid matter; pus.
3. Putrescence; a foul state occasioned by putrefaction.
4. Depravity; wickedness; perversion or deterioration of moral principles; loss of purity or integrity.
Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 2 Peter 1:4.
Corruption in elections is the great enemy of freedom.
5. Debasement; taint; or tendency to a worse state.
Keep my honor from corruption.
6. Impurity; depravation; debasement; as a corruption of language.
7. Bribery. He obtained his suit by corruption.
8. In law, taint; impurity of blood, in consequence of an act of attainder of treason or felony, by which a person is disabled to inherit lands from an ancestor, nor can retain those in his possession, nor transmit them by descent to his heirs.
Corruption of blood can be removed only by act of parliament.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CORRUPTION

Cor *rup "tion (kr-rp "shn ), n. Etym: [F. corruption, L. corruptio.]

 

1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to "generation ". Bacon.

 

2. The product of corruption; putrid matter.

 

3. The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery. It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries,... to exite popular indignation against them. Hallam. They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days. Bancroft.

 

Note: Corruption, when applied to officers, trustees, etc. , signifies the inducing a violation of duty by means of pecuniary considerations. Abbott.

 

4. The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language. Corruption of blood (Law ), taint or impurity of blood, in consequence of an act of attainder of treason or felony, by which a person is disabled from inheriting any estate or from transmitting it to others. Corruption of blood can be removed only by act of Parliament. Blackstone.

 

Syn. -- Putrescence; putrefaction; defilement; contamination; deprivation; debasement; adulteration; depravity; taint. See Depravity.

 

CORRUPTIONIST

CORRUPTIONIST Cor *rup "tion *ist, n.

 

Defn: One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

corruption

cor rup tion |kəˈrəpSHən kəˈrəpʃən | ▶noun 1 dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery: the journalist who wants to expose corruption in high places. • the action of making someone or something morally depraved or the state of being so: the word “addict ” conjures up evil and corruption. • archaic decay; putrefaction: the potato turned black and rotten with corruption. 2 the process by which something, typically a word or expression, is changed from its original use or meaning to one that is regarded as erroneous or debased. • the process of causing errors to appear in a computer program or database. ORIGIN Middle English: via Old French from Latin corruptio (n- ), from corrumpere ‘mar, bribe, destroy ’ (see corrupt ).

 

corruptionist

cor rup tion ist |kəˈrəpSHənist kəˌrəpʃ (ə )nəst | ▶noun one who practices or endorses corruption, esp. in politics.

 

Oxford Dictionary

corruption

cor |rup ¦tion |kəˈrʌpʃ (ə )n | ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery: the journalist who wants to expose corruption in high places. • the action or effect of making someone or something morally depraved. 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 | [ count noun ] : the term ‘hobgoblin ’ is thought to be a corruption of ‘Robgoblin ’. • the process by which a computer database or program becomes debased by alteration or the introduction of errors. 3 archaic the process of decay; putrefaction. ORIGIN Middle English: via Old French from Latin corruptio (n- ), from corrumpere ‘mar, bribe, destroy ’ (see corrupt ).

 

corruptionist

cor rup tion ist |kəˈrəpSHənist kəˌrəpʃ (ə )nəst | ▶noun one who practices or endorses corruption, esp. in politics.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

corruption

corruption noun 1 political corruption: dishonesty, unscrupulousness, double-dealing, fraud, fraudulence, misconduct, crime, criminality, wrongdoing; bribery, venality, extortion, profiteering, payola; informal graft, grift, crookedness, sleaze. ANTONYMS honesty. 2 his fall into corruption: immorality, depravity, vice, degeneracy, perversion, debauchery, dissoluteness, decadence, wickedness, evil, sin, sinfulness, ungodliness; formal turpitude. ANTONYMS morality, purity. 3 these figures have been subject to corruption: alteration, bastardization, debasement, adulteration.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

corruption

corruption noun 1 senior officials have been implicated in corruption: dishonesty, dishonest dealings, unscrupulousness, deceit, deception, duplicity, double-dealing, fraud, fraudulence, misconduct, lawbreaking, crime, criminality, delinquency, wrongdoing, villainy; bribery, bribing, subornation, venality, graft, extortion, jobbery, profiteering; N. Amer. payola; informal crookedness, shadiness, sleaze, palm-greasing; Law malfeasance, misfeasance; archaic knavery; rare malversation. ANTONYMS honesty. 2 he is aware of his fall into corruption: sin, sinfulness, ungodliness, unrighteousness, profanity, impiety, impurity; immorality, depravity, vice, iniquity, turpitude, degeneracy, perversion, pervertedness, debauchery, dissolution, dissoluteness, decadence, profligacy, wantonness, indecency, lasciviousness, lewdness, lechery; wickedness, evil, baseness, vileness. ANTONYMS morality, purity. 3 these figures have been subject to corruption: alteration, falsification, doctoring, manipulation, manipulating, fudging, adulteration, debasement, degradation, abuse, subversion, misrepresentation, misapplication; rare vitiation.

 

French Dictionary

corruption

corruption n. f. nom féminin 1 Décomposition. : La corruption d ’une matière. 2 Action de corrompre, de soudoyer quelqu ’un. : Tentative de corruption.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

corruption

cor rup tion /kərʌ́pʃ (ə )n /→corrupt 名詞 複 ～s /-z /1 U 堕落 , 退廃 ; 汚職 , 贈収賄 , 買収 ▸ corruption scandals 汚職によるスキャンダル ▸ political [police ] corruption 政治の [警察の ]腐敗, 汚職 2 C 〖通例a ～〗〘言 〙(言葉の )なまり , 転訛 （てんか ）; (原文などの )崩れ , 改悪 .3 U 腐敗 .～̀ of bl ó od 〘英法 〙血統汚損 〘重罪を犯した者が地位 財産の相続 保有などを失うこと; 1870年に廃止 〙.