CORRUPTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corrupted mean? 

• CORRUPTED (adjective)
  The adjective CORRUPTED has 2 senses:

1. containing errors or alterations

2. ruined in character or quality

  Familiarity information: CORRUPTED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORRUPTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Containing errors or alterations

Synonyms:

corrupt; corrupted

Context example:

spoke a corrupted version of the language

Similar:

imperfect (not perfect; defective or inadequate)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Ruined in character or quality

Synonyms:

corrupted; debased; vitiated

Similar:

corrupt (lacking in integrity)

 Context examples 

I shall say nothing of those remote nations where Yahoos preside; among which the least corrupted are the Brobdingnagians; whose wise maxims in morality and government it would be our happiness to observe.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The device software attempted to access an illegal or corrupted memory location.

(Device Runtime Memory Access Error Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

Event in which measurement functions produce erroneous results or the image display is corrupted.

(Image Display Error Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

Event in which information is unintentionally permanently or temporarily lost, deleted, corrupted, or overwritten.

(Data Corrupted Computer Software Problem Associated with Medical Device, Food and Drug Administration)

Data was lost or corrupted during the operation of reducing storage space or communication bandwidth.

(Device Data Compression Error Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

Issue associated with the inability to backup or to retrieve a backed up version (corrupted file) of device data or system files.

(Failure to Back-Up Software Problem Associated with Medical Device, Food and Drug Administration)

An ultrasensitive test has been developed that detects a corrupted protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a condition found in athletes, military veterans, and others with a history of repetitive brain trauma.

(New test detects protein associated with Alzheimer’s and CTE, National Institutes of Health)

Oh! what a corrupted mind!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

And when I heard what had happened before that snowy night, from some belonging to our town, cried Martha, the bitterest thought in all my mind was, that the people would remember she once kept company with me, and would say I had corrupted her!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And he desired to know, Whether such zealous gentlemen could have any views of refunding themselves for the charges and trouble they were at by sacrificing the public good to the designs of a weak and vicious prince, in conjunction with a corrupted ministry?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)