débiner
French, verb/de.bi.ne/
débiner is spelled D-É-B-I-N-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written French, the 175,987th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Débiner is a French verb meaning “to denigrate, run down” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Décrier quelqu’un, le desservir par des paroles malveillantes”.
What does débiner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to denigrate, run down
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Décrier quelqu’un, le desservir par des paroles malveillantes. 2. Abandonner un engagement, une action. 3. Fuir. 4. Se dérober.
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 débiner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- débinant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- débiné participle past
- débine first-person indicative present
- débines indicative present second-person
- débinons first-person indicative plural
- débinez indicative plural present
- débinent indicative plural present
- débinais first-person imperfect indicative
- débinait imperfect indicative singular
- débinions first-person imperfect indicative
- débiniez imperfect indicative plural
- débinaient imperfect indicative plural
- débinai first-person historic indicative
- débinas historic indicative past
- débina historic indicative past
- débinâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce débiner?
- /de.bi.ne/
- \de.bi.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to débiner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is débiner in French?
débiner appears about once in every 30 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).