French–English dictionary

débarras

A room used for storage.

débarrasser

(intransitive, with of) To eliminate or to get rid of something.

débat

(uncountable) Discussion of opposing views.

débattable

Open to debate; not fully proved or confirmed.

débattre

(intransitive) To debate, disagree, or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints; to controvert; to wrangle.

débauche

An individual act of debauchery.

débaucher

(transitive) To morally corrupt (someone); to seduce.

débaucheur

Somebody who debauches or corrupts others; a seducer.

débecter

(slang, now, rare) To vomit.

débequeter

(slang, now, rare) To vomit.

débile

Very foolish; failing to exercise intelligence or judgement or rationality.

débilité

A state of physical or mental weakness.

débilité sénile

Decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility.

débiliter

(transitive) To make feeble; to weaken.

débiner

(informal, transitive) To criticize or malign, especially unfairly or spitefully.

débit

(networking, informal) The rate of data flow in digital networks typically measured in bits per second; the bitrate.

débiter

To make an entry on the debit side of an account.

débiteur

(economics) A person or firm that owes money; one in debt; one who owes a debt.

débitrice

(economics) A person or firm that owes money; one in debt; one who owes a debt.

déblatérer

(intransitive, pejorative) To talk rapidly without making much sense.

débloquer

(transitive) To obtain access to something; to meet the requirements of a security or protection system.

débobiner

(intransitive, colloquial) To relax; to chill out; to rest and become relieved of stress

déboguer

(computer science) To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery.

Déborah

A en given name, popular from the 1940s to the 1970s, first in the USA, then in the UK.

débordé

Subjected to too much work.

débordement

The spillage resultant from overflowing.

déborder

(intransitive) To boil to such an extent as to overflow its container.

déboucher

(transitive) To remove obstructions, impediments or other unwanted items from.

déboucher sur

(transitive) To finalize, bring to a conclusion, form the climax of.

déboulonner

(transitive) To push or throw over.

débourrer

To turn an animal into a beast of burden.

débourser

(finance) To pay out, expend; usually from a public fund or treasury.

debout

On foot. (support of the body, standing)

déboutonner

(intransitive, ergative) To come open by having its buttons unfastened.

débraillé

Decaying, decrepit or dilapidated.

débrancher

(transitive) To disconnect from a supply, especially an electrical socket.

débrayage

A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car. [from 19th c.]

débriefer

(transitive) To question someone after a military mission in order to obtain information (especially intelligence).

débris

Debris floating in a river or sea, in particular fragments from a shipwreck.

débrouillard

Capable or clever; able to put available resources to efficient or ingenious use; using materials at hand wisely or efficiently.

débrouillardise

The ability to cope with difficult situations, or unusual problems.

débrouiller

(intransitive) To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult.

débroussailler la tranchée

(transitive, , intransitive, US, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse (with).

débusquer

(by extension, ambitransitive) To uncover and bring to light by searching; usually to ferret out.

débusqueur

(engineering) a vehicle for pulling trees out of a forest.

début

That which is begun; a rudiment or element.

débutant

A person (especially a male) who débuts, or appears for the first time.

débutante

A new participant in some activity; a neophyte.

débuter

(intransitive) to make one's initial formal appearance

déc.

Abbreviation of December.

déca

(informal) A decaffeinated coffee, tea, or soft drink.

décacheter

(transitive) To break the seal of (something) in order to open it.

décade

A period of ten years [from 17th c.], particularly such a period beginning with a year ending in 0 and ending with a year ending in 9. [from 19th c.]

décadence

A state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration; decay

décadent

Characterized by moral or cultural decline.

décadente

A person affected by moral decay.

décadentisme

A state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration; decay

décaèdre

A polyhedron with ten faces.

décagone

(geometry) A polygon with ten sides and ten angles.

décalage

The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.

décalage horaire

(aviation) A physical condition caused by crossing time zones during flight; often the result of disruption to the circadian rhythms of the body.

décalé

Unusual; unconventional; not ordinary.

décalogie

A set of ten works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as ten individual works.

décalque

A design or picture produced in order to be transferred to another surface either permanently or temporarily.

décamper

(idiomatic, chiefly, as imperative, pejorative, colloquial, dismissal) To leave; to go away.

décaniller

(idiomatic, chiefly, as imperative, pejorative, colloquial, dismissal) To leave; to go away.

décanter

(transitive) To pour off (a liquid) gently, so as not to disturb the sediment.

décanteur

A vessel for decanting liquor.

décapage

A process by which the oxide scale on steel (especially stainless steels) or other metallic objects is chemically removed by strong acids.

décapant

A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.

décapitation

An instance of a person being beheaded.

décapité

With the head removed.

décapiter

(transitive) To deliberately remove the head of; to cut off (someone's) head.

décapotable

(vehicles) A convertible car: a car with a removable or foldable roof able to convert from a closed to open vehicle and back again.

décapsuler

(transitive, informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.

décathlète

(athletics) An athlete who competes in the decathlon.

décathlon

An athletic contest consisting of ten events which includes sprinting, hurdling, jumping, and throwing over a span of two days.

décathlonien

(athletics) An athlete who competes in the decathlon.

décathlonienne

(athletics) An athlete who competes in the decathlon.

décati

Weakened or worn out from age or wear.

décéder

(formal, transitive) To cause to die.

déceler

To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing.

décélération

(uncountable) The act or process of decelerating.

décembre

The twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar, following November and preceding the January of the following year, containing the southern solstice.

décence

The quality of being decent; propriety.

décennie

A period of ten years [from 17th c.], particularly such a period beginning with a year ending in 0 and ending with a year ending in 9. [from 19th c.]

décent

(of a person) Having a suitable conformity to basic moral standards; showing integrity, fairness, or other characteristics associated with moral uprightness.

décent(e)

decent, respectable

décentralisé

not centralized; having no center or several centers

déception

(countable) An example or the act of disappointing: a circumstance in which a positive expectation is not achieved.

décerner

(transitive, legal) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case.

décerveler

(psychology) To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (e.g. hypnosis)

décès

The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.

décevant

Causing disappointment.

décevoir

(transitive) To sadden or displease (someone) by underperforming, or by not delivering something promised or hoped for.

déchaîné

Not leashed; without a leash on it.

déchainement

A course of violent, frenzied action.

déchainer

to free; to liberate.

décharge

A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.

déchaux

(Roman Catholicism) Pertaining to a religious order that historically forswore the wearing of shoes. [from 17th c.]

déchet

Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.

déchèterie

(UK, Irish, Commonwealth) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump. [from 19th c.]

déchets

Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.

déchiffrement

The analysis of documents written in ancient languages, where the language is unknown, or knowledge of the language has been lost.

déchiffrer

(transitive) To convert (an encrypted or coded message) back into plain text.

déchiqueter

To cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips.

déchiqueteuse

A machine that tears up objects into smaller pieces, especially a paper shredder, garbage shredder or gardening or farming shredder.

déchirant

(idiomatic) That causes extreme sorrow or grief.

déchiré

Torn, either partly or into separate pieces.

déchirer

(stative, idiomatic, US, Canada, colloquial, vulgar) To be very impressive.

déchirure

A tear or rip in some surface.

décidé

Marked by promptness and decision.

décidément

In a decided or final manner; resolutely.

décider

(chiefly, US) To make the decisions; to be in charge; to give orders.

décidual

(biology, anatomy) Describing a part that falls off, or is shed, at a particular time or stage of development.

décigrade

(mathematics) An angular measure equal to one tenth of a grade

décimal

(arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers expressed in decimal or mathematical calculations performed using decimal.

décisif

Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.

décision

A choice or judgement.

décision de principe

(legal) A decided case which is cited or used as an example to justify a judgment in a subsequent case.

déclamer

(transitive) To declare by acclamations.

déclaration

(legal, Scotland) A legal declaration.

déclarer

To announce or declare.

déclarer coupable

(transitive) To judicially announce a verdict upon a finding of guilt; To sentence

déclarer forfait

To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.

déclenchement

A setting about; a beginning.

déclencher

(transitive) to set fire to (something), to light (something)

déclic

A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock, or a latch.

déclin

A downward trend, or the beginnings of one.

déclinaison

(nautical) The angular difference at the vessel between the direction of true north and magnetic north.

déclinant

declining; growing less

décliner

(intransitive) To become weaker or worse.

déclivité

(geomorphology) The downward slope of a curve.

décoder

To convert from an encrypted form to plain text.

décollage

(aerospace) The point in the launch of a rocket or an aircraft where it leaves contact with the ground.

décoller

(of an aircraft) To separate from the ground on takeoff; to become airborne.

décolleté

With the head removed.

décolleteur

A person who turns and shapes wood etc. on a lathe.

décolleteuse

A person who turns and shapes wood etc. on a lathe.

décoloration

The act of discoloring, or the state of being discolored; alteration of hue or appearance.

décoloré

That has lost some of its former vividness and colour.

décolorer

(transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.

décombre

Something wrecked, especially the remains or debris of something which has been severely damaged or destroyed.

décombres

(archaic) Debris or ruins of buildings; rubble.

décommander

(transitive) To invalidate or annul something.

décommissionner

(ambitransitive) To break up or (cause to) cease to exist; to disperse.

décomplexé

Of actions, emotions, facts, etc.: that are not concealed or disguised, or not eliciting shame.

décomposer

(transitive) To fragment; to break into small pieces or concepts.

décompresser

(idiomatic) To vent; to talk or take action (especially in a ranting or unrestrained way) so as to relieve stress.

décomprimer

(transitive) To relieve the pressure or compression on something.