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sourcé: sourced
sourd: deaf person
sourd: deaf (person, animal); muffled (sound); unvoiced, voiceless
sourd comme un pot: stone deaf, deaf as a doorpost, deaf as a post
sourd-muet: deaf-mute
sourd-muet: deaf-mute
sourdement: silently; secretly
sourdine: mute (something that reduces the emitted sound); mute
sourdiner: to stop the vibrations of a power line support
sourdingue: completely deaf
sourdre: to well up
souriamment: smilingly
souriant: smiling (tending to smile a lot)
souriceau: mouseling, mousekin, young mouse
souricier: mouser; mouse-catcher
souricier: mouse-catching
souricière: mousetrap; trap
sourire: smile
sourire: to smile
sourire de toutes ses dents: to smile from ear to ear, to smile all over one's face, to grin like a Cheshire cat
sourire jusqu'aux oreilles: a smile from ear to ear
sourire jusqu'aux oreilles: to smile from ear to ear, to grin like a Cheshire cat
sourire à pleines dents: to smile from ear to ear, to smile all over one's face, to grin like a Cheshire cat
souris: a smile
souris: mouse (rodent); computer mouse; a part of a leg of lamb; young woman, girlfriend
souris chaude: bat
sournois: sly, sneaky, underhanded, surreptitious
sournoisement: slyly
sournoiserie: underhandedness, slyness
sous: plural of sou; money
sous: below, under
sous clé: under lock and key
sous couvert de: under the shelter of, under cover of; under condition of; under the pretext of, under the pretense of; under the direction of, on the orders of
sous la main: at hand, on hand, to hand, at one's fingertips
sous le nez de: under someone's nose
sous le sceau du secret: under the seal of secrecy
sous le vent: on the leeward side, on the side protected from the wind
sous les auspices de: under the auspices of
sous les yeux de: in front of (someone), in full view of (someone), right before someone's eyes
sous peine de: or else, otherwise; on pain of
sous peu: soon, shortly, in a moment
sous prétexte que: arguing that, on the grounds that, on the pretext that
sous réserve de: on the condition that
sous réserve de: subject to
sous réserve que: provided that, on the condition that
sous tous rapports: in every respect, in all respects
sous toutes les coutures: from every angle, very closely, meticulously
sous-alimentation: underfeeding
sous-alimenter: to underfeed
sous-amendement: subamendment
sous-balanique: subbalanic
sous-bibliothécaire: sublibrarian
sous-bock: beermat
sous-bois: underbrush (small trees)
sous-branche: subbranch (branch that is itself an offshoot of a branch of something)
sous-calibré: subcaliber
sous-chapitre: subchapter
sous-chef: second-in-command; right-hand man
sous-classable: subclassable
sous-classe: subclass