Meaning

• The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity

• The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.

• The product of corruption; putrid matter.

• The decomposition of biological matter.

• The seeking of bribes.

• The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.

• The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct.

  "a corruption of style"

• A debased or nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, mishearing, etc.

• Something originally good or pure that has turned evil or impure; a perversion.