Corrugation
(Cor`ru*ga"tion) n. [Cf. F. corrugation.] The act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or
alternate ridges and grooves.
Corrugator
(Cor"ru*ga`tor) n. [NL.; cf. F. corrugateur.] (Anat.) A muscle which contracts the skin of
the forehead into wrinkles.
Corrugent
(Cor*ru"gent) a. (Anat.) Drawing together; contracting; — said of the corrugator. [Obs.]
Corrump
(Cor*rump") v. t. [L. corrumpere.] To corrupt. See Corrupt. [Obs.] Chauser.
Corrumpable
(Cor*rump"a*ble) a. Corruptible. [Obs.]
Corrupt
(Cor*rupt`) a. [L. corruptus, p. p. of corrumpere to corrupt; cor- + rumpere to break. See
Rupture.]
1. Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them.
Knolles.
2. Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as,
corrupt language; corrupt judges.
At what ease
Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt
To swear against you.
Shak.
3. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.
Corrupt
(Cor*rupt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Corrupted; p. pr. & vb. n. Corrupting.]
1. To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.
2. To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile.
Evil communications corrupt good manners.
1. Cor. xv. 33.
3. To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe.
Heaven is above all yet; there sits a Judge
That no king can corrupt.
Shak.
4. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt
the sacred text.
He that makes an ill use of it [language], though he does not corrupt the fountains of knowledge, . . .
yet he stops the pines.
Locke.
5. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt.
Matt. vi. 19.
Corrupt
(Cor*rupt") v. i.
