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Definition: Corruption |
CorruptionNoun1. Lack of integrity or honesty; esp susceptibility to bribery; use of a position of trust for dishonest gain. 2. In a state of progressive putrefaction. 3. Decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation). 4. 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". 5. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "corruption" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Computing | A condition in which model files or the modelling code itself becomes unusable. Corruption can occur from various causes, most of which are internal system conflicts. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: CorruptionSynonyms: corruptness (n), degeneracy (n), depravity (n), putrescence (n), putridness (n), rottenness (n), subversion (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: incorruptness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Decomposition | Noun: decomposition, analysis, dissection, resolution, catalysis, dissolution; corruption; (uncleanness); dispersion; disjunction; disintegration. |
Deterioration | Impairment, inquination, injury, damage, loss, detriment, delaceration, outrage, havoc, inroad, ravage, scath; perversion, prostitution, vitiation, discoloration, oxidation, pollution, defoedation, poisoning, venenation, leaven, contamination, canker, corruption, adulteration, alloy. |
Disease | Sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple, wen; (swelling); carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue; rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy; eruption, rash, breaking out. |
Improbity | Perfidy; perfidiousness; Adjective: treachery, double dealing; unfairness; Adjective: knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play; jobbing, jobbery; graft, bribery; venality, nepotism; corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction; barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose; mouth honor; (flattery). |
Motive | Bribe, lure; decoy, decoy duck; bait, trail of a red herring; bribery and corruption; sop, sop for Cerberus. |
Neologism | Corruption, missaying, malapropism, antiphrasis. |
Uncleanness | Sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption; slum, rookery. |
Defilement, contamination; Verb: defoedation; soilure, soiliness; abomination; leaven; taint, tainture; fetor. decay; putrescence, putrefaction; corruption; mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo. | |
Vice | Immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals; enphagy, dophagy, exophagy; want of principle, want of ballast; obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution; hardness of heart; brutality; (malevolence); corruption; (debasement); knavery; (improbity); profligacy; flagrancy, atrocity; cannibalism; lesbianism, Sadism. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Corruption |
| English words defined with "corruption": Adjutator, alligator pear, antiseptic, As merry as a grig, As sound as a roach, Augean stable ♦ Blue Peter ♦ Cacotechny, Corruptful, Corruption of blood, Corruptionist, Corruptless, Curtelasse ♦ degeneracy, depravity ♦ expose ♦ Fecks ♦ get at, Girolamo Savonarola, Godild ♦ Harlock, Hus, Huss ♦ incorrupt, Incorruptly ♦ Jan Hus, John Huss ♦ Night rule ♦ Ods ♦ Pigeon English, praetorian, Pravity, pretorian, Prial, Prithee ♦ Romansch ♦ Savonarola, sodom, Spiritual death, Sturtion, Swan-hopping ♦ Tammany, Tammany Hall, Tammany Society, total depravity ♦ unmasking, upside down. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "corruption": Verdigris. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Corruption" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (blight, bribery, corruption, cripple, decay, degeneration, depravation, depravity, dirt, foulness, graft, rottenness, squalor, taint). |
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Screenplays | Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, and their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption. (The Big Sleep; writing credit: William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, and Jules Furthman. Based on the novel by Raymond Chandler.) Yes, but I'm not a beautiful young prospect ripe for corruption. (Quills; writing credit: Doug Wright) Incompetence is the worst form of corruption. (Electra Glide in Blue; writing credit: Robert Boris; Rupert Hitzig) | |
Movie/TV Titles | College Corruption (1970) Corruption (1967) | |
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 | Cartoon showing Ulysses S. Grant, as an acrobat, on trapeze "third term," holding on to "whiskey ring" and "Navy ring," with strap "corruption" in his mouth, holding up other acrobats, Shepard, George M. Robeson, William W. Belknap, Murphy, Williams, and. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Uncle George wants you to forget failing banks, education, drugs, aids, poor health care, unemployment, crime, racism, corruption, and have a good war. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Alexander Pope | Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly! |
Amos Bronson Alcott | A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. |
Charles Caleb Colton | Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase. |
Edmund Burke | He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one. |
Edward Gibbon | Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. |
Marcus Aurelius | Everything is in a state of change. Thou, thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond, so is the whole universe. |
Publius Cornelius Tacitus | In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous. |
Swift | The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language. |
Thomas Middleton | How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer's days! |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And if there be any original defects, or adventitious ones introduced by time, or corruption; it is not an easy thing to get them changed, even when all the world sees there is an opportunity for it. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 2: The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In particular, it shall have the right to order the expulsion of any person who may in any way have attempted to distort the result of the plebiscite by methods of corruption or intimidation. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | No corruption is possible with the diamond. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jellylike mass of liquid corruption. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Lap in the old obsolete language signifies high, and untuh, a governor, from which they say by corruption was derived Laputa, from Lapuntuh. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Government agencies responsible for fighting corruption. (references) | |
Low pay also increases a lax attitude toward corruption. (references) | ||
This requirement has turned into a burden because of corruption. (references) | ||
Children | Romania | The law does not outlaw pedophilia expressly; instead pedophiles are charged with rape, corporal harm, and sexual corruption. (references) |
Mozambique | A few new primary schools opened during the year throughout the country; however, schools are overcrowded, and there is much corruption in the school system. (references) | |
Sierra Leone | Complaints of corruption within ethnic groups and ethnic discrimination in government appointments, contracts, military commissions, and promotions were common. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Guatemala | The daily ran a series on corruption and influence peddling by Rabbe. (references) |
Bangladesh | Khasru wrote a series of news stories on corruption in the shipping industry. (references) | |
Peru | Several prominent media executives were jailed pending investigation of corruption charges. (references) | |
Economic History | Botswana | Botswana has zero tolerance for corruption. (references) |
Ukraine | Corruption acts a severe brake on investment. (references) | |
Zambia | Zambia faces a serious problem of corruption. (references) | |
Human Rights | Zambia | Police corruption also was a problem. (references) |
Laos | Impunity is a problem, as is corruption. (references) | |
Congo | Overcrowding and corruption in the prisons were widespread. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Taiwan | Some Aborigine leaders have come to believe that only some form of autonomy can preserve their land rights, which constantly are threatened by Chinese developers who use connections and corruption to gain title to aboriginal land. (references) |
Minorities | Argentina | The police defendants face charges of various acts of corruption related to the stolen van. (references) |
Political Economy | Kenya | High-level corruption is pervasive. (references) |
Political Rights | Equatorial Guinea | Most opposition parties, claiming that it was futile to run amidst such blatant corruption, boycotted the election. (references) |
Antigua and Barbuda | In 1992 public concern over corruption in government led to the merger of three opposition political parties into the UPP. (references) | |
Rwanda | The parliamentary commissions of inquiry investigated allegations of corruption and other alleged misdeeds of ministers and deputies. (references) | |
Trade | Guinea | The GOG hopes this will tighten the customs clearance process and reduce corruption and fraud. (references) |
Eritrea | Although a somewhat cumbersome system can slow clearance of documents, minimal corruption and theft mitigate these problems. (references) | |
Uae | Publications, photographs, oil painting, cards, books, magazines and sculptures that do not adhere to religion, morals or aim at causing corruption and disorder are also banned. (references) | |
Travel | Thailand | The revelation of what Westerners regard as rampant graft, corruption, and favoritism as an integral part of Thai business and political practice, and the recognition of the great cost to society these actions have caused in the wake of the financial crisis, is causing many Thais to openly criticize, for the first time, the behavior of the privileged and powerful . Previously referred to euphemistically as "the Thai way," such favoritism was not necessarily tolerated, but not directly challenged . The new economic and social era in the making holds promise of also being fairer and more transparent . (references) |
Women | Liberia | Throughout the year, professional women's groups--including lawyers, market women, and businesswomen--remained vocal about their concerns regarding government corruption, the economy, security abuses, rape, domestic violence, and children's rights. (references) |
Worker Rights | Moldova | The large profits of the trafficking industry finance the corruption of officials. (references) |
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Robert Novak | Mr. Vice President, I'd like to turn to the domestic arena. One of the real problems, I think, for the county and for the Republican Party and for the administration has been this issue of corporate corruption. |
Rush Limbaugh | Not all donations are bribery or corruption, as John McCain claims. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | If an election is to be determined by a majority of a single vote, and that can be procured by a party through artifice or corruption, the Government may be the choice of a party for its own ends, not of the nation for the national good. |
James Buchanan | 1857-1861 | But the squandering of the public money sinks into comparative insignificance as a temptation to corruption when compared with the squandering of the public lands. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | For everyone's sake, we must put an end to such waste and corruption. |
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| "Corruption" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.85% of the time. "Corruption" is used about 1,376 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.85% | 1,374 | 5,815 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.15% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,376 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "corruption": Corruption of blood ♦ data corruption ♦ electoral corruption ♦ expose corruption ♦ lay bare corruption ♦ Mount of corruption ♦ not free from the taint of corruption ♦ political corruption. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "corruption": corruption-tainted, corruption-wielding. | |
Ending with "corruption": anti-corruption. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Afrikaans | bederf (bribe, damage, decay, depravation, go bad, injure, putrefy, rot, spoil, taint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | prishje (abolition, annulment, blasting, breach, breaking, breakup, chasm, collapse, damage, debasement, decay, decomposition, defacement, defeat, defilement, depravation, depravity, deterioration, discord, dissolution, failure, obliteration, quarrel, rancidity, rancidness, rot, split up, spoilage, stymie, taint, vitiation, warp, wrecking), korruptim (depravation, subornation, venality), kalbëzim (canker, putrefaction), çoroditje (anility, confusion, dissipation, embarrassment, perversion, perversity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فساد أخلاقي, فساد (blight, decay, decomposition, degeneration, depravation, depravity, deterioration, disintegration, dry rot, immorality, invalidity, perversion, perversity, putrefaction, putridity, rot, rottenness), تعفن (decay, decompose, decomposition, infection, mildew, mold, molder, moldiness, mould, moulder, mouldiness, mustiness, perish, putrefaction, putrefy, putrescence, putridity, rot, sweat), رشوة (bribe, bribery, kickback, sop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | развращаване, разложение (decomposition, putrefaction, putridity), корупция (leprosy), гниене (decay, putrefaction, rot), заразяване (contagion, contamination, contraction, defilement, gelation, infection, inoculation, vitiation), продажност (corruptibility, venality), поквареност (corruptness, depravity, impurity), поквара (debauchery, depravity, gangrene, infamy, obliquity, rot, ruin, taint, ulcer), подкупност (graft, venality), подкупничество (bribery, bribetaking, graft, racketeering, subornation), изопачаване (contortion, deformation, distortion, falsification, manipulation, misrepresentation, mutilation, travesty, twist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 貪污 , 腐败 (Corrupt, Corrupted, Corrupting, Deprave, Depraved, Depraving), 腐敗 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zkaženost (badness, cariosity, perversion), zkáza (annihilation, destruction, perdition, pulverization, ruin, subversion, undoing), rozklad (decay, decomposition, disintegration, resolution), poškození (damage, disservice, harm, lesion), korupce (jobbery, malversation, sparrow grass), úplatnost (corruptibility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zedenbederf, verdorvenheid, omkoopbaarheid, bederf (decay, depravation, taint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | malboniĝo (decay, depravation, taint), korupteco. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فساد (Decadence, Decay, Degeneration, Depravity, Immorality, Pus, Putrefaction, Spoil, Turpitude, Vice), انحراف (Deflexion, Departure, Detour, Deviance, Digression, Inclination, Invert, Leeway, Offset, Perversion, Refraction, Skew, Slope, Veer, Yaw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | korruptio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | corruption. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | korruption (venality), bestechung (bribe, bribery, graft, payola). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διαφθορά (coruptness, depravation, depravity, turpitude, venality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שחיתות (decadence, degeneracy, demoralization, depravity, immorality, perversion, perversity, turpitude), שחיטות, שחו" (bribery), שחט", קלקול (damage, disgrace, Mar, sin, spoilage, spoiling, vitiation), "שחתת "מ"ות, "שחת" (distruction, spoliation), רקבון (corrosion, decay, moldiness, putrefaction, putrescence, rankness, rot, rottenness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vesztegetés (bribery, graft), elromlás (failure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penyelewengan (aberration, irregularity), korupsi, kecurangan (deception, dishonesty, foul, fraut). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | corruzione (bribery, depravation, deterioration, graft, sleaziness), corruttela (depravity), putrefazione (decay, putrefaction, rot, rottenness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 贈賄 (bribery, graft), 収賄 (accepting bribes, graft), 汚濁 (dirty, graft, polluted), 落 (degradation, depravity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゅうわい (accepting bribes, graft), て"か (addition, annexing, blame, change, changing one's academic course, descent from heaven, fire caused by lightning, having one's own way, ignition, imputation, inversion, lighting, remarriage, second marriage, set fire to, snow, the public, the ruling power, the world, transformation, whole country), とくしょく (bribery, characteristic, feature), はいとく (fall from virtue, immorality, lapse from virtue), あっか (aggravation, bad money, bad results, degeneration, deterioration, growing worse), あくとく (immorality, vice), "うはく (bribery, colours for festive or auspicious occasions, Doctor of Engineering, feudal lords, gold and silver, nobles, partiality, red and white, thickness, yellow and white), らく (degradation, depravity), ばいしゅう (bribery, buying, purchase), ぞうしゅうわい (bribery), くさり (chain, decay, rottenness), お く (dirty, graft, polluted), おしょく, た"お (greed), たいはい (crushing defeat, decadence, degeneration, deterioration, large cup, laxness), ぞうわい (bribery, graft), かいら" (bearing an egg, circulation, sailing off, sending round, sinking into anarchy, subversion, unmooring, weighing anchor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 타락 (Degrading, relapse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | trulleeys, neughlennid (bawdiness, foulness, impurity, lewdness, uncleanliness), milley (blemish, blemish as work, blur, blur as vision, botch, corrupt, debauch; marring, deflower, despoil, despoliation; thousand, disfigure, disfigurement, impair, impairment, mar, muff, murder, ruin, spoil, spoiling, tarnish), ingyr (ichor, pus, suppuration, whitlow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orruptioncay corrupção (adulteration, contamination, defilement, jobbery, orgy, perversion, seduction), decomposição (analysis, decomposition, dissolution, rottenness). (various references) corupere (contamination, infection), corupţie (bribery, corruptness, depravity, rottenness, soil, taint, venality), cangrenã (gangrene), venalitate (venality), stricare (impairment, perversion, spoilage), stricãciune (damage, deterioration, harm, injury), murdãrie (contamination, defilement, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, dishonesty, dung, filth, filthiness, foulness, greasiness, grime, litter, maculation, mess, muck, nastiness, naughty words, offscourings, ordure, puddle, refuse, rust, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, squalidity), depravare (debauchery, degradation, depravation, depravity, taint), denaturare (distortion, misrepresentation, perversion, sophistication, warp), alterare (adulteration, alteration, change). (various references) коррупция (venal practices). (various references) podmitljivost (corruptibility, venality), korupcija (jobbery). (various references) corrupción (debauch, debauchery, decay, graft, rottenness, taint, vitiation), putrefacción (decay, depravation, putrefaction, putrescence, rot, rottenness, taint), deterioración (decay, depravation, deterioration, taint). (various references) skada (blight, corrupt, crock, damage, detriment, disadvantage, disserve, harm, hurt, ill, impair, injure, injury, insult, loss, mischief, prejudice, riddle), förgängelse (decay), fördärv (bane, blight, destruction, fate, perdition, perversity, ruin, taint, undoing). (various references) yozlaştırma, rüşvetçilik, rüşvet (backhander, boodle, bribe, bribery, douceur, graft, inducement, kickback, palm grease, palm oil, payoff, payola, pie, sop), fesat (agitator, depravity, intrigue, jaundiced, low-minded, malice, mischief, plot, poisonous, sinister), bozulma (breach, breakdown, breakup, confusion, corrosion, decay, declension, decomposition, deformation, degeneration, degradation, derogation, deterioration, devolution, disfiguration, disfigurement, disruption, dissolution, impairment, infection, pollution, putrefaction, rancidity, rancidness, rottenness, shipwreck, spoilage, taint, undoing, upset), bozma (annulment, breach, breaking, cancel, cancellation, changing, defacement, dislocation, dissolution, exchange, impairment, infraction, infringement, mutilation, obliteration, perversion, ruining, spoiling, stain, violation, vitiation), ahlaksızlık (debauch, debauchery, depravation, depravity, dissoluteness, immorality, indecency, moral turpitude, rascality, turpitude, uncleanliness, vice, viciousness, wantonness), çürüme (decay, decomposition, dry rot, putrefaction, rot, rottenness). (various references) розбещеність (badness, dissoluteness, naughtiness, perversity, profligacy, rottenness, salacity), корупція, загнівання, псування (blasting, defacement, depravation, deterioration, spoilage, spoliation, vitiation, waste), продажність (corruptibility, venality). (various references) sự tham nhũng sự mục nát, sự hối lộ (bribery, graft, subornation). (various references) llygriad (adulteration), llygredigaeth, llwgr (corrupt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | caries, corruptio, corruptione, corruptionem, corruptioni, corruptionis, exteritionem, venaliter. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 13, Verse 37 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | On de o qeoV hgeiren ouk eiden diafqoran |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quem vero Deus suscitavit non vidit corruptionem |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | But he whom God reiside fro deth, say not corrupcioun. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | But he whom God reysed agayne sawe no corrupcion. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But he whom God raised again, saw no corruption. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But he, who was lifted up by God, did not see destruction. |
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| Language | Acts Chapter 13, Verse 37 |
| Albanian | por ai, që e ka ringjallur Perëndia, nuk ka parë kalbje. |
| Cebuano | Apan siya nga gibanhaw sa Dios wala moagig pagkadunot. |
| Chinese | 惟 獨 神 所 復 活 的 、 他 並 未 見 朽 壞 。 |
| Croatian | a Onaj koga Bog uskrisi ne vidje truleži. |
| Danish | men den, som Gud oprejste, så ikke Forrådnelse. |
| Dutch | Maar Hij, Dien God opgewekt heeft, heeft geen verderving gezien. |
| Finnish | Mutta hän, jonka Jumala herätti, ei nähnyt katoavaisuutta. |
| French | Mais celui que Dieu a ressuscité n`a pas vu la corruption. |
| German | Den aber Gott auferweckt hat, der hat die Verwesung nicht gesehen. |
| Hungarian | De a kit Isten feltámasztott, az nem látott rothadást. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tetapi Yesus, yang Allah hidupkan kembali dari kematian, Yesus itu tidak hancur habis. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi Ia yang dibangkitkan Allah itu tiada kena binasa. |
| Italian | Ma colui che Dio ha risuscitato, non ha subìto la corruzione. |
| Maori | Ko tenei ia i whakaarahia ake nei e te Atua, kihai ia i kite i te pirau. |
| Norwegian | men den som Gud opvakte, han så ikke tilintetgjørelse. |
| Portuguese | Mas aquele a quem Deus ressuscitou nenhuma corrupção experimentou. |
| Rumanian | Dar Acela, pe care L -a knviat Dumnezeu, n`a vqzut putrezirea. |
| Shuar | Tura antsu Yus iniantkimia nuna ayashinkia penké Káurchamiayi. |
| Swahili | Lakini yule ambaye Mungu alimfufua kutoka wafu hakupata kuoza. |
| Swedish | men den som Gud har uppväckt, han har icke sett förgängelsen. |
| Uma | Aga Yesus, to napotuwu' nculii' Alata'ala-e, uma-i-hana jadi' pope hi rala daeo'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "corruption": corruptionist, corruptionists, corruptions. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "corruption": anticorruption, incorruption. (additional references) | |
Words containing "corruption": anticorruptions, incorruptions. (additional references) | |
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"Corruption" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coreuption, corrotion, corruptio, corruptione, corrution, coruption. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "corruption" (pronounced keru"pshun) |
| 7 | k er u" p sh u n | anticorruption. |
| 6 | -er u" p sh u n | interruption. |
| 5 | -u" p sh u n | disruption, eruption. |
| 4 | -p sh u n | absorption, adoption, assumption, caption, conception, conniption, conscription, consumption, contraception, contraption, deception, description, egyptian, encryption, exception, exemption, gumption, inception, inscription, interception, misconception, misperception, nonprescription, option, overconsumption, perception, preconception, preemption, prescription, presumption, proscription, reception, redemption, resumption, subscription, transcription. |
| 3 | -sh u n | abbreviation, abdication, abduction, aberration, abolition, abomination, abortion, abrogation, absolution, abstraction, academician, acceleration, accession, acclimation, accommodation, accreditation, accretion, accumulation, accusation, acidification, acquisition, action, activation, adaptation, addiction, addition, adjudication, administration, admiration, admission, admonition, adoration, adulation, advection, advocation, affectation, affection, affiliation, affirmation, affliction, agglomeration, aggravation, aggression, agitation, alienation, allegation, alleviation, alliteration, allocation, alphabetization, alteration, altercation, alternation, amalgamation, ambition, amelioration, ammunition, amortization, amplification, amputation, animation, annexation, annihilation, annotation, antiabortion, anticipation, antidiscrimination, apparition, appellation, application, apportion, appreciation, apprehension, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, articulation, ascension, ashen, aspiration, assassination, assertion, assimilation, association, attention, attraction, attribution, attrition, auction, audition, augmentation, authentication, authorization, automation, aviation, avocation, balkanization, beautician, benediction, bifurcation, brutalization, calculation, calibration, cancellation, cannibalization, capitalization, capitulation, carburetion, carnation, castration, categorization, causation, caution, celebration, centralization, certification, cessation, cetacean, characterization, circulation, circumspection, citation, civilization, clarification, classification, clinician, coagulation, coalition, codification, coercion, cogeneration, cogitation, cognition, cohabitation, collaboration, collection, collectivization, colonization, coloration, colorization, combination, commemoration, commendation, commercialization, commission, commotion, communication, communization, compassion, compensation, competition, compilation, completion, complexion, complication, composition, comprehension, compression, compulsion, compunction, computation, computerization, concatenation, concentration, conceptualization, concession, conciliation, concoction, concussion, condemnation, condensation, condescension, condition, conduction, confabulation, confection, confederation, confession, configuration, confirmation, confiscation, conflagration, confrontation, conglomeration, congratulation, congregation, conjugation, conjunction, connection, connotation, consecration, conservation, consideration, consolation, consolidation, constellation, consternation, constipation, constitution, constriction, construction, consultation, consummation, contamination, contemplation, contention, continuation, contortion, contraction, contradiction, contribution, contrition, convection, convention, conversation, conviction, convocation, convolution, convulsion, cooperation, coordination, coronation, corporation, correction, correlation, corroboration, counterrevolution, creation, cremation, criminalization, crucifixion, crustacean, culmination, cultivation, cushion, dalmatian, damnation, decaffeination, decapitation, deceleration, decentralization, decertification, decimation, declaration, decommission, decomposition, decompression, deconstruction, decontamination, decoration, decriminalization, dedication, deduction, defamation, defection, definition, deflation, deforestation, deformation, degeneration, degradation, dehumanization, dehydration, deification, deinstitutionalization, delegation, deletion, deliberation, delineation, demarcation, demilitarization, demobilization, democratization, demodulation, demolition, demonization, demonstration, demoralization, demotion, denationalization, denomination, dentition, denuclearization, denunciation, depiction, depletion, depopulation, deportation, deposition, depravation, depreciation, depredation, depression, deprivation, deregulation, dereliction, derivation, desalination, desalinization, desecration, desegregation, desertion, desiccation, designation, desolation, desperation, destabilization, destination, destitution, destruction, detection, detention, deterioration, determination, detonation, detoxication, detoxification, devaluation, devastation, deviation, devolution, devotion, dictation, diction, dietitian, differentiation, diffraction, digression, dilatation, dilation, dilution, dimension, diminution, direction, disaffection, discoloration, disconnection, discontinuation, discretion, discrimination, discussion, disembarkation, disinclination, disinfection, disinflation, disinformation, disintegration, dislocation, disorganization, disorientation, dispensation, disposition, disputation, disqualification, dissatisfaction, dissection, dissemination, dissension, dissertation, dissipation, dissociation, dissolution, distillation, distinction, distortion, distraction, distribution, diversification, divination, documentation, domestication, domination, donation, dramatization, duplication, duration, dysfunction, echolocation, edification, edition, education, ejaculation, ejection, elaboration, elation, election, electrician, electrification, electrocution, elevation, elimination, elocution, elongation, emanation, emancipation, embarkation, emigration, emission, emotion, emulation, emulsion, enumeration, equalization, equitation, equivocation, eradication, erection, erudition, escalation, estimation, evacuation, evaluation, evaporation, eviction, evocation, evolution, exacerbation, exaction, exaggeration, examination, exasperation, excavation, excitation, exclamation, excommunication, excoriation, excretion, execution, exertion, exfoliation, exhalation, exhibition, exhilaration, exhortation, exhumation, exoneration, expansion, expatriation, expectation, expedition, experimentation, expiration, explanation, explication, exploitation, exploration, exposition, expression, expropriation, expulsion, extension, extermination, extinction, extortion, extraction, extradition, extrapolation, fabrication, facilitation, faction, falsification, fascination, fashion, federation, fermentation, fertilization, fibrillation, fiction, figuration, filtration, fission, fixation, flexion, flirtation, flotation, fluctuation, fluoridation, foliation, formalization, formation, formulation, fortification, foundation, fraction, fragmentation, freshen, friction, fruition, frustration, fumigation, function, gasification, gastrulation, generalization, generation, gentian, gentrification, geriatrician, germination, gestation, glaciation, globalization, glorification, gradation, graduation, granulation, gratification, gravitation, gyration, habitation, hallucination, harmonization, hesitation, hessian, hibernation, homogenization, hospitalization, humiliation, hybridization, hydration, hydrogenation, hyperinflation, hypertension, hypotension, identification, ignition, illumination, illustration, imagination, imitation, immigration, immunization, impassion, imperfection, impersonation, implantation, implementation, implication, importation, imposition, impregnation, impression, improvisation, imputation, inaction, inactivation, inauguration, incantation, incapacitation, incarceration, incarnation, incineration, inclination, incoordination, incorporation, incrimination, incrustation, incubation, indemnification, indentation, indexation, indication, indignation, indiscretion, indoctrination, induction, industrialization, infarction, infatuation, infection, infestation, infiltration, inflammation, inflation, inflection, infliction, information, infraction, inhabitation, inhalation, inhibition, initiation, injection, injunction, innovation, inoculation, inquisition, insemination, insertion, insinuation, inspection, inspiration, installation, instigation, institution, institutionalization, instruction, instrumentation, insubordination, insulation, insurrection, integration, intensification, interaction, intercession, interconnection, interdiction, interjection, intermission, internationalization, interpretation, interrogation, intersection, intimation, intimidation, intonation, intoxication, introduction, introspection, intuition, inundation, invalidation, invention, investigation, invitation, invocation, ionization, irradiation, irrigation, irritation, isolation, jubilation, junction, jurisdiction, justification, juxtaposition, laceration, lactation, legalization, legislation, levitation, liberalization, liberation, libration, ligation, lilliputian, limitation, liposuction, liquefaction, liquidation, litigation, localization, location, locomotion, logician, lotion, lubrication, machination, magician, magnetization, magnification, malformation, malfunction, malnutrition, manifestation, manipulation, mansion, marginalization, martian, masturbation, mathematician, maturation, maximization, mechanization, mediation, medication, meditation, menstruation, mention, midsection, migration, mineralization, miniaturization, ministration, misallocation, misapplication, misapprehension, misappropriation, miscalculation, mischaracterization, miscommunication, miscreation, misidentification, misimpression, misinformation, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, mission, mitigation, mobilization, moderation, modernization, modification, modulation, molestation, monopolization, mortician, motion, motivation, multiplication, mummification, munition, musician, mutation, mutilation, narration, nation, nationalization, naturalization, navigation, negation, negotiation, neutralization, nitration, nomination, nonaggression, nondiscrimination, nonfiction, nonproliferation, normalization, notation, notification, notion, nucleation, nullification, nutrition, obfuscation, objection, obligation, observation, obsession, obstetrician, obstruction, occupation, ocean, omission, operation, opposition, oppression, optician, optimization, oration, orchestration, ordination, organisation, organization, orientation, origination, ornamentation, oscillation, ossification, ostentation, ovation, overexpansion, overpopulation, overproduction, overprotection, overreaction, overregulation, oversimplification, overvaluation, ovulation, oxidation, pacification, pagination, palpitation, participation, partition, passion, pasteurization, patrician, pediatrician, penetration, pension, percussion, perfection, perforation, permission, permutation, perpetuation, persecution, personalization, personification, perspiration, perturbation, petition, physician, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politician, politicization, pollination, pollution, pontification, popularization, population, portion, position, possession, potion, precaution, precession, precipitation, precondition, predestination, prediction, predilection, predisposition, preelection, prefabrication, preignition, premeditation, premonition, preoccupation, preparation, presentation, preservation, pressurization, presupposition, pretension, prevention, privation, privatization, probation, procession, proclamation, procrastination, procreation, production, profanation, profession, prognostication, progression, prohibition, projection, proliferation, promotion, pronunciation, propagation, proportion, proposition, propulsion, proration, prosecution, prostitution, prostration, protection, protestation, provocation, publication, punctuation, purification, qualification, quantification, quotation, radiation, radicalization, ramification, ratification, ration, rationalization, reaction, reaffirmation, realization, reallocation, reassertion, reauthorization, recalculation, recantation, recapitalization, recertification, recession, recitation, reclamation, reclassification, recognition, recollection, recommendation, reconciliation, recondition, reconfiguration, reconfirmation, reconsideration, reconstruction, recreation, recrimination, rectification, recuperation, redecoration, rededication, redefinition, redirection, redistribution, reduction, reeducation, reelection, reevaluation, reexamination, reflation, reflection, reforestation, reformation, refrigeration, refutation, regeneration, regimentation, registration, regression, regulation, rehabilitation, rehydration, reimposition, reincarnation, reincorporation, reinspection, reintegration, reinterpretation, reintroduction, reinvention, reinvigoration, reiteration, rejection, rejuvenation, relation, relaxation, relocation, remediation, remission, remuneration, renationalization, rendition, renegotiation, renomination, renovation, renunciation, reorganization, reparation, repatriation, repercussion, repetition, replication, reposition, repossession, representation, repression, reproduction, repudiation, reputation, requisition, reregulation, reservation, resignation, resolution, respiration, restitution, restoration, restriction, resurrection, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, retention, retraction, retransmission, retribution, reunification, revaluation, revelation, reverberation, revitalization, revocation, revolution, revulsion, rhetorician, rotation, rumination, salvation, sanctification, sanction, sanitation, saponification, satisfaction, saturation, secession, secretion, section, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, sedition, seduction, segmentation, segregation, selection, sensation, separation, sequestration, session, simplification, simulation, situation, socialization, solicitation, solution, sophistication, specialization, specification, speculation, stabilization, stagflation, stagnation, standardization, starvation, station, statistician, sterilization, stimulation, stipulation, strangulation, subluxation, submission, subordination, subsection, subsidization, substantiation, substation, substitution, subtraction, suburbanization, succession, suction, suffocation, summation, superstation, superstition, supposition, suppression, suspension, suspicion, syncopation, syndication, tabulation, tactician, taxation, technician, telecommunication, temptation, tension, termination, theoretician, titian, titillation, toleration, traction, tradition, transaction, transection, transformation, transgression, transillumination, transition, translation, transmission, transplantation, transportation, trepidation, triangulation, tribulation, tuition, undervaluation, unification, unionization, urbanization, usurpation, utilization, vacation, vaccination, vacillation, validation, valuation, vaporization, variation, vegetation, venetian, ventilation, verification, vibration, victimization, vilification, vindication, violation, visitation, visualization, vocation, volition, vulgarization, westernization, workstation. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-n-o-o-p-r-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: incorrupt. | |
-2 letters: protonic. | |
-3 letters: contour, cornuto, corrupt, crouton, outcrop, porcino, portico, portion, proctor, ruction, tricorn. | |
-4 letters: citron, copout, cortin, coupon, croton, inpour, irrupt, octopi, octroi, option, potion, pronto, proton, torpor, tropic, tropin, turnip, unroot, uproot, uptorn. | |
-5 letters: conto, coopt, cornu, count, court, croon, croup, cruor, curio, cutin, incur, input, intro, nitro, ontic, optic, orcin, orpin. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-n-o-o-p-r-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: corruptions, neurotropic, procuration. | |
+2 letters: incorruption, procurations, reproduction. | |
+3 letters: corruptionist, incorruptions, preproduction, reproductions. | |
+4 letters: anticorruption, corruptionists, outreproducing, overproduction, preproductions, unincorporated. | |
+5 letters: anticorruptions, hyperproduction, nonreproductive, overproductions, underproduction. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Historic | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Bible Trace 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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