erode · verb
Sens et exemples
Affaiblir ou détruire progressivement quelque chose, comme la confiance, un soutien ou une relation.
Repeated failures to explain important decisions eroded the staff's trust in the new leadership.
Small unexplained charges can erode customer confidence even when the main service remains reliable.
The long dispute has eroded goodwill between neighbours who once cooperated on almost every local issue.
By continually dismissing her concerns, he was eroding the openness on which their friendship had depended.
Formes
- erode base form
- erodes third-person singular present
- eroded past tense; past participle
- eroding present participle