abrutir
French, verb/a.bʁy.tiʁ/
abrutir is spelled A-B-R-U-T-I-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 73,020th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abrutir is a French verb meaning “to render idiotic; to turn into idiots” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre stupide comme une bête brute”.
What does abrutir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to render idiotic; to turn into idiots
- 2
to blunt or deaden the mind
- 3
to overwhelm, to devastate
- 4
to return to a brutish or bestial state
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre stupide comme une bête brute. 2. Devenir stupide comme une bête brute. 3. Accabler ; éreinter.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of abrutir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- abrutissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- abruti participle past
- abrutis first-person indicative present
- abrutit indicative present singular
- abrutissons first-person indicative plural
- abrutissez indicative plural present
- abrutissent indicative plural present
- abrutissais first-person imperfect indicative
- abrutissait imperfect indicative singular
- abrutissions first-person imperfect indicative
- abrutissiez imperfect indicative plural
- abrutissaient imperfect indicative plural
- abrutîmes first-person historic indicative
- abrutîtes historic indicative past
- abrutirent historic indicative past
- abrutirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce abrutir?
- /a.bʁy.tiʁ/
- \a.bʁy.tiʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to abrutir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is abrutir in French?
abrutir appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).