Literally, to break, separate or dissolve. Hence,

To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to separate the component parts of a body, as by a natural process, which accompanied by a fetid smell.

To vitiate or deprave; to change from good to bad. Evil communications corrupt good manners.7 Corinthians 15:33.

To waste, spoil or consume. Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt. Matthew 6:19.

To defile or pollute. Exodus 32:7.

To entice from good and allure to evil. 2 Corinthians 11:3.

To pervert; to break, disobey or make void. Malachi 2:8.

To pervert or vitiate integrity; to bribe; as, to corrupt a judge.

To debase or render impure, by alterations or innovations; as, to corrupt language.

To pervert; to falsify; to infect with errors; as, to corrupt the sacred text.

To become putrid; to putrefy; to rot. Animal and vegetable substances speedily corrupt in a warm and moist air.

To become vitiated; to lose purity.

Changed from a sound to a putrid state, as by natural decomposition.

Spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound; as corrupt air, or bread.

Depraved; vitiated; tainted with wickedness. They are corrupt; they have done abominable works. Psalm 14:1. The earth was corrupt before God.Genesis 6:11.

Debased; rendered impure; changed to a worse state; as corrupt language.

Not genuine; infected with errors or mistakes. The text is corrupt.