CORRUPTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corrupting mean? 

• CORRUPTING (adjective)
  The adjective CORRUPTING has 3 senses:

1. seducing into corrupt practices

2. harmful to the mind or morals

3. that infects or taints

  Familiarity information: CORRUPTING used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORRUPTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Seducing into corrupt practices

Similar:

seductive (tending to entice into a desired action or state)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Harmful to the mind or morals

Synonyms:

corrupting; degrading

Context example:

the vicious and degrading cult of violence

Similar:

noxious (injurious to physical or mental health)

Sense 3

Meaning:

That infects or taints

Synonyms:

contaminating; corrupting

Similar:

infectious (easily spread)

 Context examples 

We are positively corrupting people.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

'So very fond of me!' 'tis nonsense all. She loves nobody but herself and her brother. Her friends leading her astray for years! She is quite as likely to have led them astray. They have all, perhaps, been corrupting one another; but if they are so much fonder of her than she is of them, she is the less likely to have been hurt, except by their flattery. 'The only woman in the world whom he could ever think of as a wife.' I firmly believe it. It is an attachment to govern his whole life. Accepted or refused, his heart is wedded to her for ever. 'The loss of Mary I must consider as comprehending the loss of Crawford and Fanny.' Edmund, you do not know me. The families would never be connected if you did not connect them! Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)