The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word TAINTS which also is the latest solution we found used in Chronicle of Higher Education in 2016.
Corrupts crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| TAINTS | 19 % | 6 |
| POISONS | 19 % | 7 |
| DEBASES | 19 % | 7 |
| DEPRAVES | 10 % | 8 |
| ROTS | 10 % | 4 |
| SUBVERTS | 5 % | 8 |
| VENALIZES | 5 % | 9 |
| BRIBES | 5 % | 6 |
| DEFILES | 5 % | 7 |
| DEGRADES | 5 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Corrupts
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- bribe
- bribable
- purchasable
- buy
- sneaky
- spoil
- underhand
- underhanded
- perverse
- sold-out
- praetorian
- pretorian
Crossword Answer definitions
TAINTS noun- A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food
- A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish
- Tincture; hue; colour
- Infection; corruption; deprivation
- A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
- To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
- To spoil (food) by contamination.
- To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
- To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
- To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
- To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
- A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
- An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
- To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
- To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
- To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
- The perineum.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result TAINTS
More clues leading to the result POISONS
- Pesticides, to pests
- Cyanide and arsenic, e.g.
- Cyanide and hemlock
- Cyanide and arsenic
- Exterminator's supply
- Corrupts
- Contaminates
- Toxicologist's concerns
- Whodunit elements
- Toxins
More clues leading to the result DEBASES
- Brings indignity to
- Lowers in value
- Cheapens
- Corrupts
- Lowers
- Drags down
- Corrupts.
- Reduces in value, as currency.
- Devalues.
- Vitiates.
More clues leading to the result DEPRAVES
More clues leading to the result ROTS
More clues leading to the result SUBVERTS
More clues leading to the result VENALIZES
More clues leading to the result BRIBES
- Buys off
- Gives hush money
- Rewards for corruption.
- Suborns.
- Allurements.
- Hush-money.
- Hush money.
- Certain inducements.
- Certain payoffs
- Sub-rosa deals