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 |
| DEGRADES | 5 % | 8 |
| SUBVERTS | 5 % | 8 |
| VENALIZES | 5 % | 9 |
| BRIBES | 5 % | 6 |
| DEFILES | 5 % | 7 |
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 DEGRADES
- Knocks down a peg
- Goes bad
- Humbles
- Abases; vitiates
- Corrupts
- Badmouths
- Classifies downward
- Brings to a lower level
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