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# corrupted

«corrupted» in Mova's school dictionary: **A corrupted file or piece of data has been damaged, so it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (corrupted); verb (corrupt, corrupts, corrupted, corrupting — corrupted is the past form)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (computing) A corrupted file or piece of data has been damaged, so it cannot open or works wrongly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corrupted/#m1)

2) Corrupted means made dishonest or morally bad, especially by money or power. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corrupted/#m2)

3) A corrupted word or text has been changed from its original form, often by mistake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corrupted/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday computer use: «the file is corrupted» means it is broken; keep backups. In stories and history, a hero or ruler can be corrupted by power or greed. In language lessons, many place names are corrupted forms of older words. Phrases: «a corrupted file», «corrupted by power», «corrupted data».

### examples

- My game save got corrupted, and I lost all my progress. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corrupted/#x1)
- The photos were corrupted when the memory card was pulled out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corrupted/#x2)
- In the story, the good king was corrupted by greed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corrupted/#x3)
- Power corrupted the leader, and he began to lie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corrupted/#x4)
- The name of the town is a corrupted form of an old Viking word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corrupted/#x5)
- A virus corrupted files on the school computer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corrupted/#x6)

### note

Adjective corrupt (a corrupt official = dishonest, takes bribes) is the usual adjective for people; corrupted is used for files and for something that has been changed for the worse. Nouns: corruption.

### In the corpora

- [And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.161/)
- [They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their iniquity, He will punish their sins.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.129/)
- [As a troubled fountain, and a corrupted spring, so is a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.747/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «corrupted» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/corrupted/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.