Decrease and Corrupt

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

verb

• Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.
  • usage: "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children"; "corrupt the morals"
  • synonyms: pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect
• Make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence.
  • usage: "This judge can be bought"
  • synonyms: bribe, buy, grease one's palms
• Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon.
  • usage: "sully someone's reputation"
  • synonyms: defile, sully, taint, cloud
• Alter from the original.
  • synonyms: spoil

adjective

• Lacking in integrity.
  • usage: "humanity they knew to be corrupt... From the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government"
• Not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive.
  • synonyms: crooked
• Containing errors or alterations.
  • usage: "a corrupt text"; "spoke a corrupted version of the language"
  • synonyms: corrupted
• Touched by rot or decay.
  • usage: "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"
  • synonyms: tainted

• (v.t.) To waste, spoil or consume; to make worthless.
• (a.) Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.
• (v.i.) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
• (v.t.) To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.
• (v.t.) To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe.
• (v.t.) To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile.
• (v.t.) To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text.
• (a.) Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
• (a.) Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges.
• (v.i.) To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness.