Corrupt vs Disrupt - What's the difference?
corrupt | disrupt |
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 throw into confusion or disorder.
To interrupt or impede.
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In transitive terms the difference between corrupt and disrupt
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 disrupt is to interrupt or impede.corrupt
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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 .
References
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(en verb)Ian Sample
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- The internet makes it easier for leaner businesses to disrupt the larger and more unwieldy ones.