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amortissement nom {m} | amortization [amortizations]◼◼◼(process of distributing asset cost) damping◼◼◻(the stabilization of a physical system by reducing oscillation) |
amortisseur nom {m} | shock absorber◼◼◼(device to absorb shocks) numnah(pad placed under a horse's saddle) |
amortisseur nom | air cushion◼◻◻(shock absorber) |
ange de la mort nom {m} | angel of death◼◼◼(personification of death in fiction and in art) |
ange de la mort nom propre {m} | Grim Reaper◼◻◻(personification of Death) |
angle mort nom {m} | blind spot [blind spots]◼◼◼(part of the road/railway track/tramway track that cannot be seen) blindside◼◻◻(motor vehicle/train/tram driver's field of blindness) |
angoisse de la mort nom {f} | anguish◼◼◼(extreme pain) |
arrêt de mort nom {m} | death sentence [death sentences]◼◼◼(sentence) |
attraper la mort verbe | catch a cold◼◼◼(contract a cold) |
aussi mort qu'un dodo adjectif | dead as a dodo(unquestionably dead) |
aux portes de la mort preposition | at death's door◼◼◼(about to die) |
boite aux lettres morte nom {f} | dead drop◼◼◼(location used to pass items between two people in secret) |
bras mort nom {m} | oxbow lake [oxbow lakes]◼◼◼(crescent-shaped lake) |
c'est mort preposition | like hell◼◼◼(expressing the opposite of one's intentions) |
camp de la mort nom {m} | death camp◼◼◼(facility) |
cause de la mort nom {f} | cause of death◼◼◼(official cause of a human death) |
combat à mort nom {m} | fight to the death◼◼◼(A fight in which there is only one winner, the survivor) deathmatch◼◻◻(competitive mode) |
commun des mortels nom {m} | hoi polloi [hoi polloi]◼◼◼(the common people) |
condamnation à mort nom {f} | death sentence [death sentences]◼◼◼(sentence) death warrant◼◻◻(warrant that authorizes capital punishment) |
condition mortelle nom {f} | mortality [mortalities]◼◼◼(condition of being susceptible to death) |
couloir de la mort nom {m} | death row [death rows]◼◼◼(section of a prison which houses those inmates who are sentenced to death) |
croque-mort nom {m} nom {f} | undertaker [undertakers]◼◼◼(funeral director) |
culture de la mort nom {f} | culture of death◼◼◼noun |
demi-mort adjectif {m} | halfdead(halfway dead; partially alive) |
demi-morte adjectif {f} | halfdead(halfway dead; partially alive) |
demi-mortes adjectif {f-Pl} | halfdead(halfway dead; partially alive) |
demi-morts adjectif {m-Pl} | halfdead(halfway dead; partially alive) |
drap mortuaire nom {m} | pall [palls]◼◼◼(heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb) |
écran bleu de la mort nom {m} | blue screen of death◼◼◼(screen indicating a system error) |
en état de mort cérébrale adjectif | brain-dead◼◼◼(in medicine: having irreversible cessation of brain activity) |
érection post mortem nom {f} | death erection◼◼◼(post-mortem priapism) |
être/tourner au point mort verbe | idle [idled, idling, idles](to run at a slow speed, or out of gear) |
expérience de mort imminente nom {f} | near-death experience [near-death experiences]◼◼◼(experience by people whose heart and brain have temporarily ceased to function) |
faire le mort verbe | play dead◼◼◼(to act as though defeated) play possum◼◼◻verb |