brider
French, verb/bʁi.de/
brider is spelled B-R-I-D-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 49,558th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Brider is a French verb meaning “to bridle; bridle up (attach a bridle to)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre la bride à un cheval, à un mulet, etc”.
What does brider mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bridle; bridle up (attach a bridle to)
- 2
to curb; control; put on a leash
- 3
to truss (in cooking, to put string around meat, so it keeps its shape when cooking)
- 4
to choke (be too tight)
- 5
to choke (a motor)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre la bride à un cheval, à un mulet, etc. 2. intransitif 3. Ficeler une volaille pour empêcher sa déformation pendant la cuisson. 4. Trop serrer.
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 brider
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- bridant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- bridé participle past
- bride first-person indicative present
- brides indicative present second-person
- bridons first-person indicative plural
- bridez indicative plural present
- brident indicative plural present
- bridais first-person imperfect indicative
- bridait imperfect indicative singular
- bridions first-person imperfect indicative
- bridiez imperfect indicative plural
- bridaient imperfect indicative plural
- bridai first-person historic indicative
- bridas historic indicative past
- brida historic indicative past
- bridâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce brider?
- /bʁi.de/
- \bʁi.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to brider
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is brider in French?
brider appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).