Corrupt vs Debase - What's the difference?
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In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
* Shakespeare
Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
* Knolles
To make ; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
* , Genesis 6:12
To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.
To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
* Bible, Matthew vi. 19
To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
(archaic) To lower in position or rank.Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.
To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.
In transitive terms the difference between corrupt and debase
is that corrupt is to make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert while debase is to lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.As an adjective corrupt
is in a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.corrupt
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The government here is corrupt , so we'll emigrate to escape them.
- At what ease / Might corrupt' minds procure knaves as ' corrupt / To swear against you.
- The text of the manuscript is corrupt .
- It turned out that the program was corrupt - that's why it wouldn't open.
- Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "corrupt" is often applied: practice, state, country, nation, regime, city, government, person, man, politician, leader, mayor, judge, member, minister, file, database, document, woman.Quotations
* , Genesis 6:11 *: The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.Synonyms
* corruptedVerb
(en verb)- Don't you dare corrupt my son with those disgusting pictures!
- And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
- (Francis Bacon)
- to corrupt language, or a holy text
- Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt .