corrupted

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈɹʌptɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ʌptɪd
• Hyphenation: cor‧rupt‧ed

Adjective

corrupted (comparative more corrupted, superlative most corrupted)

1. Marked by immorality and perversion; depraved.

   Synonym: corrupt

2. Dishonest.

   Synonyms: deceptive, mendacious

3. (chiefly computing, software) Containing errors.

   Synonyms: contaminated, corrupt, tainted; see also Thesaurus:contaminated

   It proved impossible to recover any data from the corrupted disk.

Derived terms

• corruptedly
• corruptedness
• incorrupted
• noncorrupted
• uncorrupted

Translations

Marked by immorality and perversion; depraved

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貪腐 / 贪腐 (zh) (tānfǔ), 腐敗 / 腐败 (zh) (fǔbài), 貪污 / 贪污 (zh) (tānwū)

• Finnish: korruptoitunut (fi)
• French: corrompu (fr)
• German: korrupt (de), korrumpiert (de)
• Japanese: 汚職の (ja) (おしょくの, oshoku-no)
• Latin: corruptus, vitiōsus
• Polish: zepsuty (pl), zdeprawowany (pl)
• Russian: коррумпи́рованный (ru) (korrumpírovannyj), прода́жный (ru) (prodážnyj)

Dishonest

• Finnish: korruptoitunut (fi), epärehellinen (fi)

Containing errors

• Finnish: korruptoitunut (fi)
• Malay: terkontaminsi
• Māori: hāmate (referring to computers)

Verb

corrupted

1. past participle of corrupt