corrupter

English

Alternative forms

• corruptor

Etymology

corrupt +‎ -er

Noun

corrupter (plural corrupters)

1. One who or that which corrupts.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:

     Can love, which always seeks the good of its object, attempt to betray a woman into a bargain where she is so greatly to be the loser? If such corrupter, therefore, should have the impudence to pretend a real affection for her, ought not the woman to regard him […] as the worst of all enemies […] ?

   • 2018, Kristin M.S. Bezio, Kimberly Yost, Leadership, Popular Culture and Social Change, page 157:

     Since the 1980s, video games have widely been lambasted as a medium that is at best a waste of time and at worst a training ground for violence and aggression. Despite popularized media depictions of video games as corrupters of youth, to date, no study has definitively demonstrated any such link […]

Translations

one who corrupts

• Italian: corruttore (it) m, corruttrice f
• Latin: corruptor m, corruptrix f
• Spanish: corrompedor m, corrompedora (es) f

Anagrams

• recorrupt