Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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corrupt

/kəˈɹʌpt/ adjective, verb

Forms corrupts corrupting corrupted corrumpt corrump corroupt

  1. adjective Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
  2. adjective In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals. “The government here is corrupt, so we'll emigrate to escape them.”
  3. adjective Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state. “The text of the manuscript is corrupt.”
  4. adjective In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
  5. verb (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert. “Don't you dare corrupt my son with those disgusting pictures!”
  6. verb (archaic, intransitive) To become putrid, tainted, or otherwise impure; to putrefy; to rot.
  7. verb (transitive) To introduce errors; to place into an invalid state. “Unplugging a flash drive without dismounting it first can corrupt the data stored on the drive.”
  8. verb To debase or make impure by alterations or additions; to falsify. “to corrupt language, or a holy text”
  9. verb To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

Synonyms

corrupted defile lead astray sully warp desecrate profanate profane profanize pollute tarnish violate adulterate debauch demoralize detort file immoralize pervert preposterate subvert demoralise debase vitiate deprave misdirect bribe buy grease one's palms taint

Antonyms

incorrupt

Etymology

From Middle English corrupten, derived from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpō (“to destroy, ruin, injure, spoil, corrupt, bribe”), from com- (“together”) + rumpō (“to break in pieces”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
  2. adjective Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges.
  3. verb To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.
  4. verb To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile.

Etymology [L. corruptus, p. p. of corrumpere to corrupt; cor- + rumpere to break. See Rupture.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “corrupt”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “corrupt” (best matches first).

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