corrupts
Saykuh-RUPTS/kəˈɹʌpts/
- 1Third person singular present of corrupt.
Greed slowly corrupts even the most honest officials.
A single damaged sector corrupts the entire backup file.
Note
The -s ending belongs to the verb alone. The adjective corrupt, as in a corrupt official, never takes it, so the added s always signals an action. Most often that action has an object: power corrupts its holders, a bad sector corrupts a file. An archaic intransitive use takes no object at all. There, flesh or meat simply corrupts, meaning it rots.
corrupts is a form of corrupt
corrupt, verb: To change someone or something from good to bad; to lead away from honest or moral behavior. Full entry
- Forms
- corruptcorrupts he/she/itcorrupting -ing formcorrupted past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- corrupt → corrupts: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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