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Corrupt vs Ravish - What's the difference?

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Corrupt is a related term of ravish.


As verbs the difference between corrupt and ravish

is that corrupt is to make ; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert while ravish is (obsolete|or|archaic) to seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.

As an adjective corrupt

is in a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.

corrupt

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
  • The government here is corrupt , so we'll emigrate to escape them.
  • * Shakespeare
  • At what ease / Might corrupt' minds procure knaves as ' corrupt / To swear against you.
  • Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
  • The text of the manuscript is corrupt .
    It turned out that the program was corrupt - that's why it wouldn't open.
  • In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
  • * Knolles
  • 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

    * corrupted

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make ; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
  • Don't you dare corrupt my son with those disgusting pictures!
  • * , Genesis 6:12
  • And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
  • To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.
  • to corrupt language, or a holy text
  • To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
  • * Bible, Matthew vi. 19
  • Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt .

    References

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    ravish

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • (obsolete, or, archaic) To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
  • To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1873 , author=Jules Verne , title=Around the World in 80 Days , chapter=9 citation , passage=Passepartout was ravished to behold this celebrated place, and thought that, with its circular walls and dismantled fort, it looked like an immense coffee-cup and saucer.}}
  • To rape.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1759 , author=Voltaire , title=Candide , chapter=8 citation , passage=A tall Bulgarian soldier, six feet high, perceiving that I had fainted away at this sight, attempted to ravish me; the operation brought me to my senses. I cried, I struggled, I bit, I scratched, I would have torn the tall Bulgarian’s eyes out, not knowing that what had happened at my father’s castle was a customary thing.}}
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
  • For loe that Guest would beare her forcibly, / And meant to ravish her, that rather had to dy.

    Synonyms

    * abripe * (seize and carry away) kidnap

    Derived terms

    * ravishing * ravishment