0 present participle of corrupt
2 to change information on a computer so that it is wrong and cannot be used:
It is not yet clear whether it could be deployed by the mole without increasing the complexity of the mole's depth profile and corrupting the pristine borehole environment.
Indeed, they amount to ways of corrupting or destroying the self.
In order to be credible as the cause of such a drastically corrupting effect, however, opium has to be powerful stuff.
Intuitively, the reason for this condition is that we must be able to evaluate e1 after e2 or vice versa without corrupting the previous result.
The doublespeak of war is an instance of thought corrupting language and language corrupting thought.
Far from corrupting philosophy, the presence of commercial patrons demonstrated the new philosophy's vitality.
He condemned the vice of idleness for corrupting these qualities, and he portrayed honour and glory as the reward of good citizens.
Bootleggers are viewed as corrupting the music because they also have an interest in money.
