Words 2601–2700
sillonner
to crisscross; cut across; furrow; to go back and forth (across); to leave traces of one's passage or way
Verb
vendange
vintage (yield of grapes for wine-making); grapes harvested for wine-making; grape harvest season
Noun
rabattre
to make something lower; to close, shut (down); to fold over (covers, curtains etc.); to turn down (a collar); to pull down (a skirt); to reduce, deduct, diminish; to cut back (a plant, tree); to bind off (stitches in knitting); to cut in; to fall back on; …
Verb
monnaie
change (money back after a transaction); currency; cash, change (coins, as opposed to notes); coinage
Noun
essouffler
to knock the wind out of, leave breathless; to become breathless; to run out of steam, to tail off
Verb
planche
board; spread (picture covering a whole page); plank; woodcut; board (used for sport, e.g. skateboard or surfboard); plank, beanpole (very thin person)
Noun
agrandir
to enlarge, make bigger; to extend, to expand (a house, building, area); to grow, get bigger; to embiggen; to aggrandize
Verb
feuilleter
to leaf through (turn the pages of (a book) rapidly reading short sections at random); to laminate (cause to separate into thin layers)
Verb
trésor
treasure (valuables); treasure (any single thing one values greatly); treasure (term of endearment); treasury
Noun
hotte
carrying basket, burden basket; chimney flue; hood (metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes); kitchen hood, extractor hood (electrical kitchen device fitted over a cooker and connected to a flue designed to suck off any vapours from cooking); fume hood (ventilated compartment in which chemical procedures may be undertaken without the escape of noxious fumes into the local environment)
Noun
piétiner
to stomp (make loud sounds by stepping); to shuffle (move forwards with short steps and with difficulty); to make no headway, to go into a dead end; to trample (underfoot)
Verb
fouler
to stamp, to impress, to dent; to mill; to walk on, to tread, to trample; to oppress, to mistreat; to injure by knocking, bumping or dinting; to sprain; to wear oneself out, to overdo it
Verb
allonger
to lay down; to lengthen, to make longer, to extend; to extend out, to stretch; to lengthen; to grow, to get longer; to stretch out; to lie, to lie down
Verb
titre
heading, title (name of a piece of work); title (extra name bestowed upon somebody); titre; tittle (the point on top of the letter i); share, certificate (document evidencing ownership of stock, debt, commodities, etc.)
Noun
prêcher
to preach; to advocate moral values, political ideas; to lecture someone about what is good or bad
Verb
geste
gesture; move, motion; saga, especially a cycle of poems in the epic, literary style of the Middle Ages
Noun