Words 13201–13300
13203pastille
small roll of dough containing fragrant ingredients baked in order to perfume the air; pastille, lozenge, drop (medicinal or candy); lozenge-shaped figure in a design; the conductive part of a printed circuit board that components are fixed to
Noun
13215réorienter
to reorientate, redirect; to transfer; to change one's major; to switch careers; to retrain
Verb
13219désamorcer
to defuse (e.g. a weapon); to forestall, to hinder, to prevent something from happening
Verb
13234blockbuster
blockbuster (film or book that sustains exceptional and widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales)
Noun
13241bouleversant
heartrending, deeply moving, deeply touching, earth-shattering (very upsetting)
Adjective
13243CES
initialism of certificat d’études secondaires: ≈ GED (high-school diploma), GCSE; initialism of collège d’enseignement secondaire (“junior high school, secondary school”)
Noun
13246souler
to get (someone) drunk, to inebriate; to fill up as if with food; to confuse or extenuate with an unending flow of something; to intoxicate or overexcite; to get drunk, to inebriate oneself; to consume excessively of something; to gorge oneself on something; to exasperate
Verb
13253panache
panache; the bulk of antlers of deer and moose; column or plume of smoke (cloud of smoke)
Noun
13265transpiration
transpiration (process of giving off water vapour through the skin or mucous membranes); sweat (fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation)
Noun
13270déférer
to remand; to grant; to bestow; to confer (upon); to award; to bring (before); to refer (to); to submit
Verb
13283jasper
to apply different colors of paint flowing together in order to make it look like jasper stone
Verb
13287tutoyer
to thou (to address (someone) using the informal second-person pronoun tu rather than the formal vous); to be familiar with, to be close to something
Verb
13291bomber
to bulge; to cower, to bend; to move, walk quickly; to spray paint (especially of taggers or graffiti artists)
Verb
13300limousine
traditional woolen cloak from Haute-Vienne; limousine, luxury car; limousin (cattle breed)
Noun