Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

défaire

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Remove ads

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French desfaire, from Old French desfaire, from Early Medieval Latin disfacere. Synchronically dé- + faire.

Pronunciation

Verb

défaire

  1. (transitive) to take down, take apart, dismantle, unpack (luggage)
  2. (transitive) to undo, unfasten, unwind
  3. (transitive) to break, break up, unmake
  4. (transitive, literary) to defeat, conquer
  5. (reflexive) to come undone, fall apart, disintegrate
  6. (pronominal) to part with [with de ‘something’]
    se défaire d'une propriététo part with ones property

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

Anagrams

Remove ads

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads