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abuser: to mislead; to take advantage [with de ‘of’] (especially sexually); to abuse (use improperly); to go too far
abuseur: abuser
abusif: abusive
abusivement: abusively
abutilon: abutilon
abutyrotomofilogène: simple-minded
abyssal: abyssal (pertaining to the deep sea); fathomless, abysmal
abysse: deep sea; abyss (something fathomless, unfathomable)
abyssin: Abyssinian
abyssin: Abyssinian (cat)
abyssinien: Abyssinian
abyssinien: Abyssinian (cat)
abyssopélagique: abyssopelagic
abâtardi: having suffered change; defiled; bastardized
abâtardir: to cause something's qualities or defining characteristics to degenerate; to defile or degrade; to bastardize; to degrade; to degenerate; to become bastardized
abâtardissement: bastardization
abâtardisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of abâtardir
abécédaire: alphabetical
abécédaire: an alphabet primer
abée: the sluice gate, sluice or flume to a water wheel
abélia: a shrub member of Abelia
abélianiser: to abelianize
abélien: abelian; Abelian
abéliser: to charm (all senses)
abélite: Abelian (member of a sect living like Abel)
abélonien: Abelian (member of a sect living like Abel)
abénaquis: Abenaki
abénaquis: Abenaki (language)
abérier: to shelter; to cover
abêtifier: to make dumb, stupid; to become dumb, stupid
abêtir: to dumb down, render dumb, dim-witted; to deaden the mind of; to become dim-witted and foolish
abêtissant: mind-numbing (slowly rendering dumb, foolish, dim-witted)
abêtissement: Process or result of slowly rendering dim-witted and foolish
abêtisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of abêtir
abîme: abyss, chasm; bottom of a chasm or valley; infiniteness of thought; superlative used with various abstraction and qualities; the climax or acme; hell
abîme de science: a fount of knowledge (a very knowledgeable person)
abîmer: to damage; to fall down or sink and disappear in a hole, depth, abyss; to become absorbed in something (thought, action); to throw down in a hole, depth etc.
abŷme: rare spelling of abîme
ac: pronunciation spelling of avec
acabit: kind, type, sort
acacia: acacia
acacia blanc: black locust, Robinia pseudoacacia
acadien: of Acadia; Acadian
académicien: academician (member of an academy)
académie: academy (learned society)
académique: academic
académique: academic
académiquement: academically
académisable: able to be admitted to the Académie française
académiser: to academicize
académisme: academicism
académiste: a scholar at an academy; an academician; A member of the Académie française
acafalé: long, extended
acagnarder: to become lazy
acajou: cashew tree; also, its fruit; mahogany tree; also, its timber
acalifourchonné: straddled
acalorique: acaloric
acanthe: acanthus, bear's breeches (any of various species of plants in the genus Acanthus of the Acanthaceae); alternative form of feuille d'acanthe
acanthite: acanthite
acanthocarpe: acanthocarpous