avachir
French, verb/a.va.ʃiʁ/
avachir is spelled A-V-A-C-H-I-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 48 million words in written French, the 219,133rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Avachir is a French verb meaning “to make soft; make limp or flabby; cause to sag” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre, devenir mou, sans vigueur”.
What does avachir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to make soft; make limp or flabby; cause to sag
- 2
to render incapable of producing effort
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre, devenir mou, sans vigueur. 2. Rendre incapable de produire un effort.
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 avachir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- avachissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- avachi participle past
- avachis first-person indicative present
- avachit indicative present singular
- avachissons first-person indicative plural
- avachissez indicative plural present
- avachissent indicative plural present
- avachissais first-person imperfect indicative
- avachissait imperfect indicative singular
- avachissions first-person imperfect indicative
- avachissiez imperfect indicative plural
- avachissaient imperfect indicative plural
- avachîmes first-person historic indicative
- avachîtes historic indicative past
- avachirent historic indicative past
- avachirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce avachir?
- /a.va.ʃiʁ/
- \a.va.ʃiʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is avachir in French?
avachir appears about once in every 48 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).