Stain vs Corrupt - What's the difference?

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Stain is a related term of corrupt.

As a noun stain

is .

As an adjective corrupt is

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

As a verb corrupt is

to make ; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.

stain

English

(wikipedia stain)

Noun

(en noun)

A discoloured spot or area.

A blemish on one's character or reputation.

A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.

A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible.

Derived terms

* (l) * Giemsa stain * Leishman stain * Romanowsky stain * Wright-Giemse stain * Wright's stain

Verb

(en verb)

To discolour something

to stain the hand with dye

armour stained with blood

To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation

* Milton

Of honour void, / Of innocence, of faith, of purity, / Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained .

To coat a surface with a stain

to stain wood with acids, coloured washes, paint rubbed in, etc.

the stained glass used for church windows

To treat a microscope specimen with a dye

To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

She stains the ripest virgins of her age.

* Spenser

that did all other beasts in beauty stain

Anagrams

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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 .

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