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Ulcerate vs Corrupt - What's the difference?

ulcerate | corrupt |

As adjectives the difference between ulcerate and corrupt

is that ulcerate is having an ulcus, a rounded pore-like aperture, at one or both poles while corrupt is in a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.

As verbs the difference between ulcerate and corrupt

is that ulcerate is to cause an ulcer to develop while corrupt is to make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.

ulcerate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (palynology, of a pollen grain) Having an ulcus, a rounded pore-like aperture, at one or both poles.

    • Derived terms

    * monoulcerate

    Verb

    (ulcerat)
  • (medicine) To cause an ulcer to develop.
    • The surface was ulcerated by trauma.
  • (medicine) To become ulcerous.
    • The tissue ulcerated shortly after exposure.

    Derived terms

    * ulceration * ulcerative * ulcerative colitis * ulcerative gingivitis ----

    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 .

    Related terms

    * corruptible * corruption * incorruptible

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