Scurvy vs Corrupt - What's the difference?
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(disease) A disease caused by insufficient intake of vitamin C leading to the formation of livid spots on the skin, spongy gums, loosening of the teeth and bleeding into the skin and from almost all mucous membranes.
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Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy.
* Bible, Leviticus xxi. 18, 20
Contemptible, despicable, low, disgustingly mean.
* Jonathan Swift
* 1610 , , act 3 scene 2
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
Scurvy is a related term of corrupt.
As adjectives the difference between scurvy and corrupt
is that scurvy is covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy while corrupt is in a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.As a noun scurvy
is (disease) a disease caused by insufficient intake of vitamin c leading to the formation of livid spots on the skin, spongy gums, loosening of the teeth and bleeding into the skin and from almost all mucous membranes.As a verb corrupt is
to make ; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.scurvy
English
(wikipedia scurvy)Noun
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Synonyms
* (vitamin C deficiency disease) Barlow's disease, , scorbutusDerived terms
* scurvy grassAdjective
(er)- whatsoever man be scurvy or scabbed
- a scurvy''' trick; a '''scurvy knave
- that scurvy custom of taking tobacco
- What a pied ninny's this! Thou scurvy patch!
Derived terms
* scurvily * scurvinessSee also
* morphewReferences
* * * *Who Named It?last accessed 28-Mar-2007
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 .