Corruption definition

(1) 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"

(2) 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"

(3) 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"

(4) Lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain

(5) Decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)

(6) In a state of progressive putrefaction