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INCORRUPT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does incorrupt mean?
• INCORRUPT (adjective)
The adjective INCORRUPT has 2 senses:
1. free of corruption or immorality
2. not decayed
Familiarity information: INCORRUPT used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Free of corruption or immorality
Context example:
a policeman who was incorrupt and incorruptible
Similar:
antiseptic (clean and honest)
incorruptible (incapable of being morally corrupted)
uncorrupted (not debased)
uncorrupted; unspoiled (not decayed or decomposed)
Also:
moral (concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles)
Attribute:
corruption; corruptness (lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain)
Antonym:
corrupt (lacking in integrity)
Derivation:
incorruptness (characterized by integrity or probity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not decayed
Synonyms:
incorrupt; undecomposed
Similar:
fresh (recently made, produced, or harvested)
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