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[informal] sortir verbe | turn out(to produce; make) |
[informal] tirer au flanc verbe | slack off(to be deliberately unproductive in one's work or study) |
[informal] tirer les vers du nez verbe | worm [wormed, worming, worms](to get information that someone is reluctant to give) |
a beau mentir qui vient de loin phrase | long ways, long lies(someone who comes back from a far-off region can tell lies without fear of being contradicted) |
à couteaux tirés preposition | at each other's throats◼◼◼(in mutual conflict) at daggers drawn◼◼◻preposition |
à partir de preposition | as of◼◼◼(from a specified time) |
à partir de [before the noun] adverbe | forward◼◼◼(into the future) |
à partir de maintenant adverbe | from now on◼◼◼(from now, indefinitely) |
à partir de quoi adverbe | wherefrom(from which) |
à partir de zéro preposition | from scratch◼◼◼preposition from scratch◼◼◼(from the beginning) |
aboutir verbe | pan out◼◼◼(proceed according to plan) abut [abutted, abutting, abuts]◼◼◼(to border on) |
aboutir à verbe | culminate [culminated, culminating, culminates]◼◼◼(to finalize, form climax of) |
abrutir verbe | stupefy [stupefied, stupefying, stupefies]◼◼◼(dull the senses or capacity to think) brutalise◼◻◻(to make brutal) |
Akrotiri et Dhékélie nom propre | Akrotiri and Dhekelia(British overseas territory) |
amortir verbe | cushion [cushioned, cushioning, cushions]◼◼◼(absorb impact) damp [damped, damping, damps]◼◼◻(To suppress vibrations or oscillations) dull [dulled, dulling, dulls]◼◻◻(to soften, moderate or blunt) |
anéantir verbe | annihilate [annihilated, annihilating, annihilates]◼◼◼(to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate) wipe out◼◼◼(to destroy or obliterate) defeat [defeated, defeating, defeats]◼◼◻(to reduce, to nothing, the strength of) exterminate [exterminated, exterminating, exterminates]◼◼◻verb nuke◼◻◻((colloquial) to destroy or erase completely) |
antiracisme nom {m} | antiracism◼◼◼(opposition to racism) |
antireligieux adjectif | antireligious◼◼◼(opposed to religion) |
antirétroviral adjectif | antiretroviral◼◼◼(fighting retrovirus) |
antirévolutionnaire adjectif | antirevolutionary◼◼◼(opposing a revolution) |
antirouge adjectif | antired◼◼◼(one of the three possible colours of an antiquark) |
antirradar adjectif | antiradar(preventing detection by radar) |
aplatir verbe | flatten [flattened, flattening, flattens]◼◼◼(to make something flat) best◼◻◻(to beat) even [evened, evening, evens]◼◻◻(to make even) score off(to gain an advantage on somebody) |
aplatir [to flatten] verbe | roll [rolled, rolling, rolls]◼◼◼(to press or level with a roller) |
aplatir la courbe verbe | flatten the curve◼◼◼(to reduce the rate at which an infection spreads during an epidemic) |
appesantir verbe | weight [weighted, weighting, weights]◼◼◼(add weight) |
appesentir sur quelque chose verbe | expatiate [expatiated, expatiating, expatiates](to write or speak at length; to be copious in argument or discussion, to descant) |