Definition of "corrupts" [corrupts]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corrupt. (verb)

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• "He knows those people are only rarely, or incidentally, nice people, and that "power corrupts" is not just an empty maxim."
• "Opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi were placed under house arrest, and Iran's rubber-stamp parliament yesterday called for them to be tried as "corrupts" and hanged."
• "Yet a victory for Mr. Caperton would establish the proposition that political speech -- not contributions to a politician's campaign, but the independent speech of citizens -- "corrupts" democracy."