broyer
French, verb/bʁwa.je/
broyer is spelled B-R-O-Y-E-R (6 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written French, the 28,091st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Broyer is a French verb meaning “to crush, grind” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Réduire en parcelles, en poudre ou en pâte”.
What does broyer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to crush, grind
- 2
slangto crush in a fight
- 3
slangto outpower
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Réduire en parcelles, en poudre ou en pâte. 2. Pulvériser des substances colorantes, en même temps qu’on les mêle avec de leur liant pour peindre. 3. Mâcher. 4. Presser fortement.
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 broyer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- broyant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- broyé participle past
- broie first-person indicative present
- broies indicative present second-person
- broyons first-person indicative plural
- broyez indicative plural present
- broient indicative plural present
- broyais first-person imperfect indicative
- broyait imperfect indicative singular
- broyions first-person imperfect indicative
- broyiez imperfect indicative plural
- broyaient imperfect indicative plural
- broyai first-person historic indicative
- broyas historic indicative past
- broya historic indicative past
- broyâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce broyer?
- /bʁwa.je/
- \bʁwa.je\
- [bʁwa.je]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to broyer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is broyer in French?
broyer appears 1.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).