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According to WordNet, the noun "corruption" has 6 sense(s).

113453640 decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation).

104853948 lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain.

114561102 in a state of progressive putrefaction.

104850996 moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction".

100159396 inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering".

100272448 destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence".


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