Corruption means deterioration, the breakdown from a functioning, ordered state.
Bribery is often called corruption, usually with several people involved.
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.
See: Political corruption, good governance
Decomposition of
biological matter.