~ CORRODE    lat CORRODERE = TO GNAW from
                    RODERE   GNAW    sug> RODENT
~ CORROSION  see> CORRODE above


~ CORRUPT  see> RUPT RUPTURE ROUT
           biol> PUTRID  PUTREFACT  PUS
  also BAD   EVIL SINISTER or
       OMINOUS  VICIOUS
  lat RUMPERE = TO BREAK or DESTROY   see> RUPT
  sp  ROMPER    BREAK                 sug> ROMP
      RUPTURED                        sug> ROT
  lit+
  EPIGRAM or
  maxim> "POWER TENDS TO CORRUPT
          ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY"
  in a letters of First Baron ACTON [#] 1904
  derived from
  " CORRUPTION
    THE MOST INFALLIBLE SYMPTOM
    OF CONSITUTIONAL LIBERTY "
  attr to GIBBON [#] 1776 and derived from
  " THE GREATER THE POWER
    THE GREATER THE ABUSE "
  attr to E BURKE [#] 1771
  biol> CORRUPT implies PUTRID  ROTTEN
  lit+  SINISTER  OMINOUS  VICIOUS
        HARMFUL  MALIGNANT  DEGENERATE  DEPRAVED  DEVIANT
  note link to SOIL  SOW  HYENA and
       link    SOW   PIG  HYBRID
  hx>  CORRUPTION IS A POLITICAL TOOL sug> SCANDAL
       as per President T JEFFERSON [#] WHO NOTED
  in his Autobiography re
  CONGRESS BEING A DEN OF CORRUPTION
  " THAT 150 LAWYERS
    SHOULD DO BUSINESS TOGETHER
    OUGHT NOT TO BE    EXPECTED " but modern CYNICS would
  prefer  NOT TO BE  UNEXPECTED
  ply> | ROMPing corRUPT advocates lobbyists and
         other solicitors may use
  PUTRefact facts or PUTRid ideas to
  disRUPT or RUPTure the truth by the
  rapture of MONEY |        see> RAPT
  consider RIP ROUT ROB ROBE ROBBER RIP REAVE BEREAVE
           RUBBLE ABRUPT DISRUPT ERUPT INTERRUPT and
           BANKRUPT
  see> GRESHAMITE regarding BAD MONEY

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