What is the difference between corrupt and graft?
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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
(label) A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
(label) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
(label) To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
(label) To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.
(label) To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
(graff) ("canal")
The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel.
A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches.
(label) Work; labor
(label) A job or trade.
Effort needed for doing hard work.
A criminal's special branch of practice
(label) Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
(label) Corruption in official life.
(label) A con job.
A cut of the take (money).
A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.
In transitive terms the difference between corrupt and graft
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 graft is to join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.In intransitive terms the difference between corrupt and graft
is that corrupt is to become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot while graft is to insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.As an adjective corrupt
is in a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.As a noun graft is
a small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.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 .
References
* *graft
English
(wikipedia graft)Alternative forms
* graffEtymology 1
From (etyl) graffe, from (etyl) ; probably akin to English carve. So named from the resemblance of a scion or shoot to a pointed pencil. Compare graphic, grammar.Noun
Verb
(en verb)- 1717 Eloisa to Abelard. And graft my love immortal on thy fame! —