French–English dictionary

rut

(uncountable) A condition in which a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.

rutabaga

(now, North America) The edible root of this plant

Ruth

(book of the bible) A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.

Ruthénie

Kievan Rus, the medieval East Slavic state established by these same warrior merchants in the 9th century, whose capital was in Kiev.

ruthénien

related to the Rus (people)

rutile

(mineral) The most frequent of the three polymorphs of titanium dioxide, crystalizing in the tetragonal system, TiO2.

Rwanda

A country in East Africa.

rythme cardiaque

The rhythm at which a heart pulsates, a cardiac indicator.

rythmiquement

In a rhythmical manner.

s

(archaic, dialectal) Used to form the second-person singular present tense and past tense of verbs. (if thou is the subject; not used with you)

s.

and the following (pages, paragraphs etc.)

S.V.P.

(often, with yes) Used as an affirmative to an offer.

s'abaisser

(intransitive) To abase oneself before another person.

s'abîmer

(intransitive) Of fruit or vegetables, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.

s'abonner

(intransitive) To agree to purchase some good or service.

s'abstenir

(intransitive) Refrain from (something or doing something); keep from doing, especially an indulgence. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

s'accorder

(intransitive) To be in harmonious agreement.

s'accorder avec

(intransitive) To be in agreement (with); to be of an accord. [from 16th c.]

s'accoupler

(intransitive) To copulate.

s'accroupir

(intransitive) To bend down; to stoop low; to stand close to the ground with legs bent, like an animal when waiting for prey, or someone in fear.

s'accumuler

(intransitive, transitive, idiomatic) To accumulate: to increase incrementally or continually.

s'adapter

(transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit.

s'affaisser

(intransitive) To hang downward; to sag.

s'affaler

(intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy.

s'affiner

(intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe.

s'affoler

(informal, intransitive) To react with extreme anger or fear, to the extent that one loses one's composure or behaves irrationally.

s'affronter

(intransitive, of clothes, decor, colours) To fail to look good together; to contrast unattractively; to fail to harmonize.

s'agenouiller

(reflexive) To move on the knees; to use the knees to move.

s'agiter

(intransitive) To rush or hurry.

s'agripper

To use the claws to seize, to grip.

s'aligner

(transitive, intransitive, often followed by to) To change to more closely match typical characteristics or behavior.

s'allonger

(intransitive) To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).

s'amasser

(intransitive) To crowd together.

s'amuser

(intransitive) To play or do something amusing.

s'annuler

(mathematics) To become equal to zero.

s'apercevoir

(transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.

s'aplatir

(intransitive) To act in a servile manner.

s'aplatir devant

(intransitive) To act in a servile manner.

s'appliquer

To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.

s'appuyer

(Followed by against, on, or upon) To rest or rely, for support, comfort, to use as a hard surface for writing, etc.

s'arracher

(transitive, intransitive, slang) To leave.

s'arrêter

(transitive, computing) To terminate a process prior to completion.

s'asphyxier

(intransitive) To be smothered or suffocated.

s'asseoir

(intransitive, copulative, of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.

s'assombrir

(transitive) To cause to become obscure or muddled.

s'attarder

(intransitive) To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.

s'attendre à

(transitive, intransitive) To serve or attend; to wait on, wait upon.

s'attirer

(intransitive) To stick together physically, by adhesion.

s'aventurer

(transitive) To undertake a risky or daring journey.

s'ébattre

(intransitive) To play about roughly, energetically or boisterously.

s'écailler

(colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.

s'écarter

(intransitive) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.

s'échapper

(intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.

s'éclaircir

(intransitive) To become free from obstruction or obscurement; to become transparent.

s'écouler

(intransitive, of time) To pass or move by.

s'écraser

(intransitive) To collide with something destructively; to fall or come down violently.

s'effacer

(intransitive) To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence.

s'effondrer

To collapse.

s'efforcer

To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.

s'effriter

(colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.

s'élancer

(cricket, of a, batsman) To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.

s'élever

(intransitive) To take exception, to object (to or against).

s'éloigner

To set oneself at a distance from someone or something else; to move away from someone or something.

s'emboîter

(intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.

s'embusquer

To remain concealed in order to ambush.

s'emmêler les pinceaux

(intransitive, idiomatic) To get confused or mixed up about another person's intentions; to misunderstand one another.

s'emparer de

(transitive, business, obsolete) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).

s'emporter

To react too much or too intensely.

s'en aller

(intransitive) To become uninterested in an activity and cease to participate in more than a perfunctory manner; to become uncooperative.

s'en mordre les doigts

(reflexive, informal) To reproach oneself for making a mistake or missing an opportunity.

s'en remettre

(ambitransitive) To submit to the opinion or desire of others in respect to their judgment or authority.

s'encroûter

(intransitive) To become covered by a scab or scabs.

s'endurcir

(intransitive) To become stiff.

s'enfoncer

(ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.

s'enfuir

(intransitive) To run away; to escape.

s'ennuager

(transitive) To cause to become obscure or muddled.

s'enrayer

(firearm) To fail to discharge properly.

s'entrainer

(transitive) To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.

s'envoler

(intransitive) To disperse or to depart on currents of air.

s'épaissir

(intransitive) To become thicker (in the sense of wider).

s'épancher

(transitive, intransitive) To express a strong emotion.

s'épanouir

(intransitive) To begin to thrive or flourish.

s'esclaffer

To laugh in a particularly loud manner.

s'essouffler

A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points.

s'estomper

(intransitive) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.

s'étaler, s'étendre

To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.

s'éteindre

(idiomatic) To become extinct.

s'étendre

(transitive) To extend through (a time period).

s'étirer

(UK, dialectal, chiefly, Scotland, intransitive) To stretch after sleep.

s'évader

(transitive) To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from.

s'évanouir

(intransitive) To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity.

s'évaporer

To vanish or disappear.

s'exclamer

(intransitive) To cry out suddenly, from some strong emotion.

s'excuser

(intransitive, often followed by “for”) To make an apology or excuse; to acknowledge some fault or offense, with expression of regret for it, by way of amends

s'exercer

(intransitive) To improve one's fitness.

s'exhiber

(transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.

s'habiller

(also, reflexive, and, figuratively) To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe. [from 15th c.]

s'humecter

(intransitive) To become damped or deadened.

s'humecter la luette

(intransitive) To drink alcohol regularly or habitually, but not to excess.

s'humidifier

(intransitive) To become damped or deadened.

s'identifier à

(intransitive) To associate oneself with some group; to feel, or believe one feels, the same way.

s'il te plaît

(dated, formal) Please.

s'il vous plaît

(dated, formal) Please.

s'imaginer

(also, figurative) To measure the depth of (water); to take a sounding of; to sound.

s'incruster

(transitive) To cause something to collide with something else, especially when this results in damage.

s'indigner

(transitive) To express displeasure or indignation at.

s'infiltrer

(transitive) To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture

s'inquiéter

(ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.

s'inscrire

(intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" or "at" designating the recipient of the submission, and the adposition "for" designating the position).

s'insinuer

(transitive) To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture

s'installer

(intransitive) To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not easily able to do so.

s'intégrer

(of a person) To be accepted in a group.

s'intensifier

(intransitive) To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.

s'interposer

(intransitive) To intervene in a dispute, or in a conversation.

s'obscurcir

(intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.

s'occuper de

(transitive, rare) To be concerned with; to be an expert in.

s'opposer

(intransitive) To oppose; to refuse to accept.

s'opposer à

To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against.

s'optimiser

(intransitive) To become optimal.

s'ouvrir

(intransitive) To reveal oneself; to share personal information about oneself; to become communicative.

s’abaisser

(intransitive) To fall downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.

s’affaisser

(figurative) Of a person: to (suddenly) cease resisting pressure or stress; to give in or give way, to yield.

s’agiter

(intransitive) To be very worried or excited about something, often too much.

s’avérer

(copulative, fossil word) To become, to turn out to be.

s’échapper

(intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.

s’écrouler

(figurative) Of a person: to (suddenly) cease resisting pressure or stress; to give in or give way, to yield.

s’effondrer

(intransitive, informal) To fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed.

s’efforcer

(intransitive) To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously. [from 16th c.]

s’élargir

(intransitive) To become wide or wider.

s’empresser

(intransitive) To be very worried or excited about something, often too much.

s’en aller

(intransitive, figurative) To disappear, vanish; to cease to exist.

s’enfuir

(intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.

s’enliser

(figuratively) To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.

s’envoyer en l’air

(vulgar, slang, usually of a man, ambitransitive) To have sexual intercourse (with).

s’hypertrophier

(intransitive) Of a tissue or organ, to increase in size.

sa

Belonging to her (belonging to that female person or animal, or in poetic or old-fashioned language that ship, city, season, etc).

sabayon

A custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, sugar and Marsala wine.

sabbat

Saturday, observed in Judaism as a day of rest and worship.

sabbatique

Relating to the Sabbath.

sabbatisme

The principles and practices of a Sabbatarian; the observance of the Sabbath, the keeping of the Sabbath.

sabine

The evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil.

sabinier

The evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil.

sable

(historical) A type of fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, sprinkled over wet ink to dry the ink after writing or on rough paper to smooth the writing surface.

sable argileux

(founding) A kind of sand containing clay, used in making molds.

sable mouvant

Wet sand that appears firm but in which things readily sink, often found near rivers or coasts.

sabler

(transitive) To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it.

sables mouvants

Wet sand that appears firm but in which things readily sink, often found near rivers or coasts.

sablier

(by extension) A timer that can be set to sound an alarm after a certain amount of time; a kitchen timer.

saborder

(transitive) To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner.

sabot

A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.