a. | 1. | Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound. |
2. | Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; | |
3. | Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; | |
v. t. | 1. | To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy. |
2. | To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile. | |
3. | To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; | |
4. | To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; | |
5. | To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless. | |
v. i. | 1. | To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot. |
2. | To become vitiated; to lose purity or goodness. |