Corruption means deterioration, the breakdown from a functioning, ordered state.
Corruption is used, especially poetically, to describe the decomposition of biological matter.
Political corruption or civil corruption is expressed through bribery, intimidation, extortion, vote buying, destabilization, or influence peddling.
A corrupted society is a society with low moral values.
A language or a text can be corrupted into a broken form or a different meaning.
Parts of a machine can be corrupted, meaning broken.
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