corrupter en · NOUN
Etymology
From corrupt + -er.
Meanings
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One who or that which corrupts.
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 157: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 Foundling:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| corruptor | alternative | lexicographic | |
| corrupters | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (7)
es corrumpente (one who corrupts) · es corrompedor (one who corrupts) · la corruptor (one who corrupts) · it corruttrice (one who corrupts) · it corruttore (one who corrupts) · la corruptrix (one who corrupts) · es corrompedora (one who corrupts)