Meanings
plural corrupters · alternative corruptor
- One who or that which corrupts.
Can love, which always seeks the good of its object, attempt to betray a woman into a bargain where she is so greatly to be the loser? If such corrupter, therefore, should have the impudence to pretend a real affection for her, ought not the woman to regard him […] as the worst of all enemies […] ?
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling1 more example
Since the 1980s, video games have widely been lambasted as a medium that is at best a waste of time and at worst a training ground for violence and aggression. Despite popularized media depictions of video games as corrupters of youth, to date, no study has definitively demonstrated any such link […]
2018, Kristin M.S. Bezio, Kimberly Yost, Leadership, Popular Culture and Social Change, page 157Synonyms: perverter
Synonyms & antonyms
nounOne who or that which corrupts.
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Translations
Italian corruttore, corruttrice
- corruttoreone who corrupts
- corruttriceone who corrupts
Latin corruptor, corruptrix
- corruptorone who corrupts
- corruptrixone who corrupts
Spanish corrompedor, corrompedora
- corrompedorone who corrupts
- corrompedoraone who corrupts
- corrumpenteone who corrupts
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corrupter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/corrupter
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