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angoisser

French, verb/ɑ̃.ɡwa.se/

angoisser is spelled A-N-G-O-I-S-S-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 57,169th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Angoisser is a French verb meaning “to stress, to worry; to cause panic or fear” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tourmenter par l’angoisse”.

What does angoisser mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to stress, to worry; to cause panic or fear

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Tourmenter par l’angoisse.

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 angoisser

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • angoissant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • angoissé participle past
  • angoisse first-person indicative present
  • angoisses indicative present second-person
  • angoissons first-person indicative plural
  • angoissez indicative plural present
  • angoissent indicative plural present
  • angoissais first-person imperfect indicative
  • angoissait imperfect indicative singular
  • angoissions first-person imperfect indicative
  • angoissiez imperfect indicative plural
  • angoissaient imperfect indicative plural
  • angoissai first-person historic indicative
  • angoissas historic indicative past
  • angoissa historic indicative past
  • angoissâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce angoisser?

  • /ɑ̃.ɡwa.se/
  • \ɑ̃.ɡwa.se\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is angoisser in French?

angoisser appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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