0 present participle of corrupt
2 to change information on a computer so that it is wrong and cannot be used:
Profit, as we shall see, was portrayed either as secondary or as corrupting.
They portrayed the desire for profit as one of the vices corrupting the commonwealth.
These "debts may be compromising or corrupting," and impartiality may become an improbable ideal for the insider-ethicist.
The language rights activists present the victim of linguistic imperialism as a sponge who uncritically absorbs corrupting material.
Then some processors (fewer than half of them) fail, and the fault consists in corrupting precisely this bit.
As one might expect it was this which aroused the most anxiety over the theory's potentially corrupting threats to morality and decency.
Uniform clothing offset the corrupting influences of vanity and competition so prevalent in modern society and subdued young women's tendencies toward competition.
Bootleggers are viewed as corrupting the music because they also have an interest in money.
