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venter: to be windy, to blow
venter à décorner les bœufs: to be extremely windy
venteux: windy (charactized by strong winds)
ventilateur: ventilator, fan; pedestal fan
ventilation: ventilation: replacement of stale or noxious air with fresh; ventilation: mechanical system used to circulate and replace air; repartition
ventilatoire: breathing
ventiler: to ventilate; to discuss, debate; to evaluate, estimate; to break down (a total into parts)
ventilo: fan (machine used for circulating air)
ventouse: an opening in a pipe, shaft, etc. to allow air flow
ventouse: plunger; suction cup; cupping glass; ventouse; sucker
ventouser: apply ventouses to a sickness; to have a romantic relationship; to go out with someone
ventral: ventral
ventre: belly; antinode
ventre affamé n'a point d'oreilles: words are wasted on a starving man; a hungry man is an angry man (you can't reason with someone who is hungry)
ventre mou: weakness, weak spot, soft underbelly
ventre sur pattes: walking stomach, stomach on legs (person who is hungry all the time)
ventre à pattes: walking stomach, stomach on legs (person who is hungry all the time)
ventre à terre: at full tilt, at full pelt
ventriculaire: ventricular
ventricule: ventricle
ventriculogramme: ventriculogram
ventriculographie: ventriculography
ventrier: abdominal
ventriloque: ventriloquist
ventriloquie: ventriloquism
ventripotent: having a big belly, ventripotent
ventro-ventral: ventroventral
ventrofixation: ventrofixation
ventrolatéral: ventrolateral
ventromédian: ventromedian
ventru: potbellied, paunchy; rounded, bulging
ventrée: heavy meal; blowout
venté: windy
ventôse: Ventôse (the sixth month of the French Republican Calendar)
venue: coming, arrival
venue au monde: coming into the world, birth
vepse: Veps (Finno-Ugric language)
ver: worm
ver de farine: mealworm
ver de terre: earthworm
ver luisant: firefly; glowworm
ver solitaire: tapeworm
ver à soie: silkworm
ver à soie tussah: Antheraea pernyi
verbal: verbal
verbalement: verbally; orally
verbalisateur: verbalizer; one who issues a ticket or fine
verbalisation: verbalization, verbalisation; fining, ticketing (issuing a fine)
verbaliser: to verbalize, to put into words (express using speech); to make a statement (dresser un procès-verbal); to give somebody a ticket, a fine; to write up somebody
verbalisme: verbalism
verbatim: verbatim
verbatim: verbatim
verbe: speech; tone of voice; way of speaking; verb
verbe absolu: A transitive verb that can be used without an object
verbe actif: active verb (verb with which the subject expresses an action)
verbe auxiliaire: auxiliary verb
verbe d'action: dynamic verb
verbe d'état: stative verb (verb that expresses a state of the subject, not an action)
verbe de mouvement: verb of motion
verbe de perception: verb of perception, perception verb (verb expressing a perceptual experience of the subject)