Difference between Corrupt and Spoil

What is the difference between Corrupt and Spoil?

Corrupt as a verb is to make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert. while Spoil as a verb is to strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions, armour etc.; to despoil.

Corrupt

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals. With lots of errors in it; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state. In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

Example sentence: Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Spoil

Part of speech: noun

Definition: (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions, armour etc.; to despoil.To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.

Example sentence: You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

We hope you now know whether to use Corrupt or Spoil in your sentence.

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