The difference between Corrupt and Rescue

When used as verbs, corrupt means to make corrupt, whereas rescue means to save from any violence, danger or evil.


Corrupt is also adjective with the meaning: in a depraved state.

Rescue is also noun with the meaning: an act or episode of rescuing, saving.

check bellow for the other definitions of Corrupt and Rescue

  1. Corrupt as an adjective:

    In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.

    Examples:

    "The government here is corrupt, so we'll emigrate to escape them."

  2. Corrupt as an adjective:

    Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.

    Examples:

    "The text of the manuscript is corrupt."

    "It turned out that the program was corrupt - that's why it wouldn't open."

  3. Corrupt as an adjective:

    In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

  1. Corrupt as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

    "Don't you dare corrupt my son with those [[disgusting]] pictures!"

  2. Corrupt as a verb (intransitive):

    To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Francis Bacon"

  3. Corrupt as a verb:

    To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.

    Examples:

    "to corrupt language, or a holy text"

  4. Corrupt as a verb:

    To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

  1. Rescue as a verb:

    To save from any violence, danger or evil.

    Examples:

    "The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche."

  2. Rescue as a verb:

    To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.

    Examples:

    "to rescue a prisoner from the enemy''."

  3. Rescue as a verb:

    To recover forcibly.

  4. Rescue as a verb:

    To deliver by arms, notably from a siege.

  5. Rescue as a verb (figuratively):

    To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.

    Examples:

    "Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls."

  6. Rescue as a verb (figuratively):

    To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.

  1. Rescue as a noun:

    An act or episode of rescuing, saving.

  2. Rescue as a noun:

    A liberation, freeing.

  3. Rescue as a noun:

    The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril

    Examples:

    "The rescue of Jerusalem was the original motive of the Crusaders"

  4. Rescue as a noun:

    A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded

  5. Rescue as a noun:

    A rescuee.

    Examples:

    "The dog was a rescue with some behavior issues."