Corruption

Corruption means deterioration, the breakdown from a functioning, ordered state.

Political corruption or civil corruption is expressed through bribery, intimidation, extortion, vote buying, destabilization, or influence peddling.
Data corruption is the receiving of data which is different from that which was transmitted or otherwise intended. Error checking is usually used to prevent this.
A corrupted society is a society with low moral values.
A language or a text can be corrupted into a broken form or a different meaning.
Parts of a machine can be corrupted, meaning broken.
Corruption is used, especially poetically, to describe the decomposition of biological matter. This usage is archaic.

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