French–English dictionary

dégivrer

(transitive) To remove frost from.

déglacer

(transitive) To remove frost from.

déglinguer

(transitive) To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.

déglutir

(intransitive) To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion. [from 18th c.]

déglutition

The act of swallowing.

dégobiller

(slang, now, rare) To vomit.

dégoiser

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

dégonder

To remove the leaf of a door or a window from its supporting hinges.

dégonflé

(of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.

dégonfler

(UK, informal) To fail to perform a promised or planned action due to lack of courage or nerve; to run away or back down from a contest or challenge.

dégoulinade

Solid animal fat, traditionally collected from dripping off roasting meat.

dégoulinant

Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.

dégouliner

(intransitive) to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously.

dégoût

An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.

dégoûtant

Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.

dégouté

(slang) Deeply disappointed or crushed, as by defeat, failure, or loss; let down.

dégoûter

To cause an intense dislike for something.

dégradant

Degrading; that degrades.

dégradation

(chemistry, uncountable) Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements; (countable) an instance of this.

dégradé

A gradual change in color; a color gradient; gradation.

dégrader

(transitive, military, most often in the, _, passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.

degré

(algebra) The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial. [from 18th c.]

degrés de comparaison

(grammar) A feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected to indicate the relative degree of the property they define exhibited by the word or phrase they modify or describe.

dégrèvement

An amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed; in particular from a tax. [Late 15th century.]

dégringoler

(idiomatic) To rain heavily.

déguenillé

In tatters, having the texture broken.

déguerpir

(intransitive, idiomatic, slang) To leave (or not attend at all) a place or a situation, especially quickly or when the situation has become undesirable; to abandon (something).

dégueu

(informal) Unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting.

dégueulasse

Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.

dégueuler

(colloquial, ambitransitive) To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach.

déguisement

A disguise or covering up.

déguiser

(transitive) To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.

dégustateur

A person who appreciates good food.

dégustation

Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal or other beverage. The pours are smaller than a full glass and the flight will generally include three to five different samples.

dégustation de vin

(countable) An event for the purpose of tasting and evaluating wine.

dehors

(dated) Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode. [from 1150–1350)]

déifier

(transitive) To make into a god.

déisme

(philosophy) A philosophical belief in the existence of a god (or goddess) knowable through human reason; especially, a belief in a creator god unaccompanied by any belief in supernatural phenomena or specific religious doctrines.

déité

(uncountable) The state, position, or fact of being a god or God. [from 14th c.]

déjà

Tell me again, say again; used in asking a question to which one may have already received an answer that one cannot remember.

déjà-vu

Loosely or humorously, anything one has done before or is being repeated.

déjeuner

(dated) To eat breakfast; to eat the first meal of the day after a night of not eating or to conclude any period of fasting by consuming food.

déjeuner dinatoire

A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, and often consisting of typical foods from both of those meals.

déjeuner-diner

A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, and often consisting of typical foods from both of those meals.

déjeunette

A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, and often consisting of typical foods from both of those meals.

déjouer

(transitive) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.

DEL

Initialism of light-emitting diode.

délabré

Having fallen into a state of disrepair or deterioration, especially through neglect.

délabrement

The state of being in poor condition, in need of repair.

délabrer

(transitive) To cause to become ruined or put into disrepair.

délai

A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.

délai de livraison

(idiomatic) The amount of time between the initiation of some process and its completion, e.g. the time required to manufacture or procure a product; the time required before something can be provided or delivered.

délai de mise en œuvre

(idiomatic) The amount of time between the initiation of some process and its completion, e.g. the time required to manufacture or procure a product; the time required before something can be provided or delivered.

délaissé

Given up by the guardian or owner; abandoned, forsaken.

délaisser

(transitive) To remove or relinquish the use of (something) little by little, either via discrete diminishing phases or (by extension) by continuous gradations; to remove in phases, or as if by phases (gradually).

délateur

(slang) An informer, one who betrays their group.

délavé

That has lost some of its former vividness and colour.

délayer

(ambitransitive) To delay or impede; to keep back, to prevent.

delco

A device that distributes electric current, especially to the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine.

délecter

(transitive) To taste or eat with pleasure, to like the flavor of [from 16th c.]

délégué

One who speaks for or acts on behalf of another in a particular (especially official) capacity. [from 17th c.]

déléguée

One who speaks for or acts on behalf of another in a particular (especially official) capacity. [from 17th c.]

délestage

(countable) The action of jettisoning items.

délester

To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.

délétère

(formal) Harmful, often in a subtle or unexpected way.

délétion

(genetics) A mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome.

Delhi

A megacity and union territory of India, containing the national capital New Delhi.

délibérément

Intentionally, or after deliberation; not accidentally.

délibérer

(transitive) To consider carefully; to weigh well in the mind.

délicat

Elegant; delicately small and pretty.

délicatement

In a delicate manner; exquisitely.

délicatesse

The quality of being delicate.

délice

Something that is delectable.

délicieuse

(colloquial, lighthearted, often, childish) Delicious.

délicieux

(colloquial, figurative) Pleasing to a person's taste; pleasing to the eyes or mind.

délier

To unfasten.

délimiter

(transitive) To put a border on something.

délinéer

To sketch out, draw or trace an outline.

délinquant

(Britain, US, idiomatic) Someone whose behaviour is reprehensible or irresponsible; a rogue.

délinquer

(countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal law.

délirant

(informal, especially, Britain) Mad; crazy.

délire

(symptom) A temporary mental state with a sudden onset, usually reversible, including symptoms of confusion, inability to concentrate, disorientation, anxiety, and sometimes hallucinations. Causes can include dehydration, drug intoxication, and severe infection.

délister

(transitive) To undo the process of listing; to remove something from a list.

délit

(countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal law.

délit civil

(law) A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages. [from late 16th c.]

délivrance

The placenta and other material expelled via the birth canal following childbirth or parturition in mammals.

délivrer

To set free from restraint or danger.

délivrer un laïus

To speak formally; to give a speech.

délocalisation

The act of moving from one place to another.

délocaliser

(transitive) To move industrial production from one region to another or from one country to another, in order to seek lower business costs, such as labor.

déloger

(transitive) To remove or force out from a position or dwelling previously occupied.

Délos

An island of the Cyclades, Greece.

déloyal

(by extension, idiomatic) Unfair; dirty; not according to the generally accepted rules.

déloyauté

(uncountable) The quality of being disloyal.

Delphes

A city of ancient Greece, the site of the Delphic oracle.

déluge

(Abrahamic, _, religion) The flood taking place in the story of Noah found in the Bible (Genesis) and Qur'an.

déluge universel

(Abrahamic, _, religion) The flood taking place in the story of Noah found in the Bible (Genesis) and Qur'an.

délusionnel

Suffering from delusions; having false or faulty beliefs.

démagogique

Of or pertaining to demagogy or a demagogue.

demain

On the day after the present day.

demande

A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.

demande reconventionnelle

(legal) A suit filed by a defendant against a plaintiff secondary to the original complaint.

demander

(transitive, intransitive) To request (information, or an answer to a question).

demander [[l']]aumône

(intransitive, US) To beg for money, especially with a container in hand for receiving loose change, especially on the street, and particularly, as a homeless or vagrant person.

demander en mariage

(intransitive, sometimes followed by to) To ask for a person's hand in marriage.

demandeur

One who applies for something; one who makes a request; a petitioner.

demandeuse

(law, UK, _, historic, otherwise, current) A party bringing a suit in civil law against a defendant; accuser.

démangeaison

A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch said area.

démanger

(intransitive, stative) To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.

démanteler

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

démarche

Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving on legs.

démarcheur

A mediator between a buyer and seller.

démarrer

(ergative) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.

démarreur

An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine.

démasquer

(transitive) To discover or expose (someone) as disobedient, dishonest, etc.

démêler

(transitive) To free something from entanglement; to extricate or unknot.

démembrer

(transitive) To remove the limbs of.

déménagement

The event of changing one's residence.

déménager

(idiomatic, intransitive) To vacate one's place of residence or employment.

dément

Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad.

démente

An insane person.

démentiel

Causing insanity or madness.

démentir

(transitive) To contradict, to show (something) to be false. [from 17th c.]

démérite

A mark given for bad conduct to a person attending an educational institution or serving in the army.

démériter

To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance

Démétrios

A en given name.

Démétrius

A en given name.

démettre

(transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.

démeubler

(transitive) To strip of furniture.

demeure

The place that is one's home.

demeurer

(transitive) To endure without yielding; to withstand. [from mid-12th c.]

demi

(countable) A glass, bottle, or can of any of the above beverages.

demi-

half

demi-anglais

Of meat, cooked to a point greater than rare but less than well done; typically, so the meat is still red in the centre.

demi-dieu

(mythology) A half-god or hero; the offspring of a deity and a mortal.

demi-droite

(mathematics) A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.

demi-finale

A competition that narrows a field of contestants (semifinalists) to a set of finalists, for a subsequent final.

demi-jour

The soft, greyish light characteristic of dawn or dusk.

demi-molle

(slang) A partial erection of the penis.

démilitariser

(transitive) To remove troops from (an area).

déminer

To hollow out or undermine.

démission

The act of resigning.

démissionnaire

(not comparable) Being replaced in office (while still in office but after election has determined that he/she will be replaced).

démissionner

To conclude; to quit or stop an activity, especially after applying oneself to it for a significant period of time.

démiurge

(gnosticism) A prideful, inferior being that creates the material world; frequently identified with the creator God of the Hebrew Bible.

démo

(informal) A demonstration or visual explanation.

démo-

people

démobilisation

The disorganization or disarming of troops which have previously been mobilized or called into active service; the change from a war footing to a peace footing; the act of demobilizing.

démocrate

(US, _, politics, proscribed, often, pejorative) Of or belonging to the Democratic Party in the United States.

démocratique

Pertaining to democracy; constructed upon or in line with the principle of government chosen by the people.