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abricotine: a Swiss brandy made from apricots
abricoté: sugared apricot
abricoté: apricot; including apricots as an ingredient
abrier: to cover with a bedcover; to tuck in; alternative form of abriter
abrine: abrin
abriter: to shelter, to harbour; to host (an object, an event, an institution, etc.); to take cover; to shelter
abrivado: a type of traditional bull run in Provence or Occitania
abrivent: windbreak
abrogateur: abrogative
abrogateur: abrogator
abrogatif: abrogative
abrogation: abrogation; repeal
abrogeable: repealable; rescindable
abroger: to rescind, to repeal, to annul
abrotone: southernwood
abroutir: to eat the young shoots of or off
abroutisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of abroutir
abrupt: Extremely steep, near vertical; curt and abrupt; Done or said forwardly and without caution to avoid shocking
abruptement: abruptly
abrute: abrupt
abruti: whose physical or mental capacities have been impaired by tiredness or another factor; dazed; moronic, idiotic
abruti: moron, idiot, fool
abrutir: to render idiotic; to turn into idiots; to blunt or deaden the mind; to overwhelm, to devastate; to return to a brutish or bestial state
abrutissant: exhausting; mind-numbing
abrutissement: the process or action of rendering stupid and idiotic
abrutisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of abrutir
abruzzais: of the Abruzzo region
abrègement: post-1990 spelling of abrégement
abréactif: Having to do with abreaction; abreactive
abréaction: abreaction
abréagir: to undergo abreaction; to abreact
abréagisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of abréagir
abrégement: shortening, abridgement
abréger: to shorten in duration; to shorten (in textual length) or summarize, to abridge; to abbreviate
abrégé: a summarized synopsis or précis of a longer work; a small book or written work summarizing the major points of a general topic
abrégé: abridged
abrégément: abridgedly
abréviateur: abbreviator; one who shortens
abréviatif: abbreviative (making use of or relating to abbreviation)
abréviation: abbreviation (shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase)
abréviativement: abbreviatively; abbreviatedly
abrévier: to abbreviate
absalonien: Having opulent hair
abscisse: abscissa (the x coordinate in Cartesian coordinates)
abscission: abscission
absconder: to set (said of the Sun at sunset)
abscons: so abstruse as to prevent comprehension entirely
absence: absence (state of being absent or withdrawn)
absent: absent; absent-minded
absent: absentee; missing person
absent le chat, les souris dansent: when the cat's away the mice will play
absenter: to leave; to absent oneself
absentéisme: absenteeism
absentéiste: absentee
absidal: apsidal
abside: apse
absidiole: apsidole
absinthe: wormwood (Artemisia absinthium); absinthe
absinthique: containing wormwood
absinthisme: absinthism