aléser
French, verb/a.le.ze/
aléser is a French verb meaning “to ream (a hole; to use a reamer or boring machine to drill or enlarge a hole or cavity)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Agrandir, aux dimensions voulues, le diamètre d'un trou, d'un tube, d'un jour, le calibre d’un canon”.
What does aléser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ream (a hole; to use a reamer or boring machine to drill or enlarge a hole or cavity)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Agrandir, aux dimensions voulues, le diamètre d'un trou, d'un tube, d'un jour, le calibre d’un canon. 2. Agrandir un sphincter en sodomisant.
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 aléser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- alésant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- alésé participle past
- alèse first-person indicative present
- alèses indicative present second-person
- alésons first-person indicative plural
- alésez indicative plural present
- alèsent indicative plural present
- alésais first-person imperfect indicative
- alésait imperfect indicative singular
- alésions first-person imperfect indicative
- alésiez imperfect indicative plural
- alésaient imperfect indicative plural
- alésai first-person historic indicative
- alésas historic indicative past
- alésa historic indicative past
- alésâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aléser?
- /a.le.ze/
- \a.le.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to aléser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aléser in French?
aléser appears about once in every 83 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).