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corrupted
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | die, decline, decay |
| Synonyms: | OD, be destroyed, be killed, be lost, bite the dust, break down, buy the farm, cease, check out*, collapse, corrupt, croak, crumble, decease, decompose, demise, depart, disappear, disintegrate, end, expire, fall, give up the ghost, go, go under, kick the bucket, lose life, pass, pass away, pass on, rot, succumb, vanish, waste*, wither |
| Antonyms: | give birth, revive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | poison |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | contaminate, pollute |
| Synonyms: | adulterate, corrupt, debase, defile, deprave, destroy, envenom, fester, harm, infect, injure, kill, make ill, murder, pervert, stain, subvert, taint, undermine, vitiate, warp |
| Antonyms: | purify, sterilize |
| Main Entry: | prostitute |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | to put one's talent to an unworthy use |
| Synonyms: | abuse, cheapen, corrupt, debase, debauch, degrade, demean, deprave, devalue, misapply, misemploy, misuse, pervert, profane, vitiate |
| Main Entry: | putrefy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | rot |
| Synonyms: | break down, corrupt, crumble, decay, decompose, deteriorate, disintegrate, go bad, molder, putresce, spoil, stink, taint, turn |
| Main Entry: | rape |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sexual assault by force; act of plunder |
| Synonyms: | abuse, attack, betray, compromise, corrupt, deceive, despoil, force, loot, molest, pillage, plunder, ransack, ruin, sack, seize, spoliate, violate |
| Main Entry: | riddle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | perforate, permeate |
| Synonyms: | bore, corrupt, damage, honeycomb, impair, infest, mar, pepper, pervade, pierce, pit, puncture, spoil |
| Main Entry: | rot |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | corrode, deteriorate |
| Synonyms: | break down, corrupt, crumble, debase, debauch, decay, decline, decompose, degenerate, demoralize, deprave, descend, disimprove, disintegrate, fester, go bad, go downhill, go to pot, languish, molder, perish, pervert, putrefy, retrograde, sink, spoil, stain, taint, turn, warp, waste away, wither, worsen |
| Antonyms: | build, flourish, grow |
| Main Entry: | square |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pay off, satisfy |
| Synonyms: | balance, bribe, buy, buy off, clear, clear off, clear up, corrupt, discharge, fix, have, liquidate, make even, pay, pay up, quit, rig, settle, tamper with |
| Antonyms: | owe |
| Main Entry: | stain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dirty, taint |
| Synonyms: | animalize, bastardize, besmirch, bestialize, blacken, blemish, blot, brutalize, color, contaminate, corrupt, daub, debase, debauch, defile, demoralize, deprave, discolor, disgrace, drag through the mud, dye, mark, pervert, smear, smudge, soil, spot, sully, tar, tarnish, tinge, tint |
| Antonyms: | clean |
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