to make sb/sth start behaving in a dishonest or immoral way使腐败；使堕落◆He was accused of trying to corrupt a judge.他被指控试图贿赂法官。◆the corrupting influence of money金钱的腐蚀影响 () to cause mistakes to appear in a computer file, etc. with the result that the information in it is no longer correct引起（计算机文件等的）错误；损坏◆It seems the virus has corrupted the file.看来病毒已损坏文件。◆rescuing a corrupted disk挽救受损磁盘