Words 3201–3300
décharge
discharge; release; unloading (action of unloading something); landfill; à sa décharge: in (someone's) defence, to be fair, in fairness (to)
Noun
boucler
to buckle (to fasten); to curl (make curly); to tie up, to finish up (e.g. an affair or case); to shut; to curl up (become curly)
Verb
gêner
to hinder, hamper, bother; to bother, annoy, irritate; to embarrass; to be bothered about something
Verb
tournoyer
to whirl, to swirl; to eddy, to swirl; to whirl, to swirl, to twirl, to whirl round, to swirl round, to twirl round; to circle, to circle round, to wheel
Verb
caler
to wedge (open) (a door); to jam (machinery etc.), to stall (an engine); to stall (of driver, engine); to fill (someone) up; (of person eating) to be full; to synchronize; to chug (an alcoholic beverage); to be bald or balding, to go or be going bald
Verb
opiniâtre
opinionated, stubborn, obstinate (stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent)
Adjective
volet
shutter; flap; volet, wing (of a triptych); section, part (of a trilogy, plan, etc.); nenuphar
Noun
habileté
capacity of doing something well with hands; dexterity; skill, capacity to do a task well, not necessarily manual work
Noun
crochet
hook (rod bent into a curved shape); square bracket; fang (of snake); crocket; crochet; hook; sidestep; detour
Noun
distinguer
to distinguish; to make out (with one of the senses, often visually); to be distinguished
Verb
barreau
metal bar (of a jail cell, cage etc.); rung (of ladder); spindle (of chair); bar (place where the participants in a trial stand); bar (profession of lawyers)
Noun
détourner
to divert, to redirect; to distract, to divert (attention); to hijack; to embezzle; to turn aside, to turn away, to avert (from something); to turn aside, to turn away
Verb
cuir
leather; a speech error consisting of incorrectly inserting a /t/ as a liaison between two words
Noun
appuyer
to press, push; to rest; to support, to back; to lean; to depend, to rely; to put up with
Verb
affaisser
to cause to subside; to subside, go down, sink; to cave in, sag, give way, collapse; to ebb, weaken
Verb
évanouir
to lose consciousness; to faint; to vanish or disappear without a trace, especially things
Verb
précis
which does not leave doubt; specific, explicit; done in a precise and reliable fashion; well perceived; sharp; demonstrating precision, concision and accuracy; said of someone whose language expresses such qualities; calculated or measured with precision
Adjective
dorer
to gild; to coat something in gold; to brighten up, to brighten something to give it a golden colour; to brown, to give food a golden colour by adding an egg yolk
Verb
étendue
expanse, area (of land, water etc.); size (of a country, collection etc.); scale, range, extent (of knowledge, damage etc.); depth (of ignorance)
Noun