transitive. To transform, pervert, corrupt.

transitive. To pollute, to stain, to taint; to corrupt. Cf. smite, v. 2. Obsolete (archaic and poetic in later use).

transitive. To corrupt or defile (someone or something). In later examples with specific reference to the violation of a woman's chastity or…

To render morally foul or polluted; to destroy the ideal purity of; to corrupt, taint, sully; = defile, v.1 3. Obsolete exc. archaic.

To defile or pollute with sin or other moral stain. Also absol.

transitive. To venom (a person, an animal); to poison by contact, bite, inoculation, etc. Also absol.

transitive. To make wicked or evil; to deprave, pervert, corrupt. Obsolete.

transitive. To curse; = beshrew, v. 3. Chiefly in imprecations I shrew…(occasionally with I omitted).

transitive. To bring to naught, destroy, mar, spoil, render useless.

To render morally unsound or ‘rotten’; to destroy the moral purity or chastity of; to pervert or ruin (a good quality); to debase, defile.

transitive. To corrupt or pervert (a person, or a person's mind, soul, etc.); to turn (a person) away from a path or belief regarded as right or…

transitive. To stain or taint, esp. with moral defilement, or with the imputation of guilt or shameful conduct; to stigmatize; rarely (quot. 1541)…

transitive. To corrupt, pervert morally; to turn (a person) to error or wrongdoing; to exert an evil influence on. Also occasionally intransitive.

transitive. To taint or contaminate (a person or thing) with moral corruption; to deprave; to exert a bad influence upon character or habits.

transitive. To poison (a person). Also intransitive. Obsolete.

spec. To make morally bad; to pervert, debase, or corrupt morally. (The current sense.)

transitive. To corrupt or contaminate morally or physically; to taint; to infect. Now rare.

transitive. To transform or alter for the worse; to wrest, twist, distort, pervert.

transitive. To render incomplete, imperfect, or faulty; to impair or spoil.

transitive. To corrupt, pervert. Cf. prevaricate, v. 2.

transitive. = deprave, v.

figurative. transitive. To cause or allow (a negative feeling, such as anger) to grow worse or more intense over time. Also: to corrupt; to affect…

transitive. To transform, esp. for the worse; to pervert; to turn into something different.

To pervert. Obsolete.

transitive. To infect with pernicious, noxious, corrupting or deleterious qualities; to touch with putrefaction; to corrupt, contaminate, deprave.

transitive. To alter or change for the worse.

transitive. To turn (something) from an application, meaning, etc., considered to be right or correct; to pervert, corrupt, misrepresent…

To corrupt, pervert, mislead (a person, the understanding, etc.).

transitive. To render vicious; to corrupt, spoil.

To counterfeit, pervert. Obsolete.

transitive. To taint, infect; ? to tinge, stain; dialect to give a smack or tang to.

To seduce from virtue or morality; to pervert, deprave, or corrupt morally; esp. to corrupt or deprave by intemperance, or sensual indulgence.

transitive. To defile, pollute; to debase.

transitive. Apparently: to alter or change for the worse. Cf. disalter, v.

transitive. To ulcerate. Also figurative.

transitive. To corrupt morally; to deprave by sensuality; = debauch, v. 2. Also figurative.

transitive. To make, or represent as, Neronian in character; to rule over tyrannically.

transitive. To corrupt or undermine the morals or moral principles of. Now somewhat archaic (chiefly U.S.).

To ‘play the devil with’; to transform mischievously or bewilderingly, to corrupt, spoil, confound, or muddle.