décuver
French, verb/de.ky.ve/
décuver is spelled D-É-C-U-V-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written French, the 162,920th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Décuver is a French verb meaning “to remove (grapes, wine, etc.) from a vat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre la vendange hors de la cuve”.
What does décuver mean in English?
verb
- 1
to remove (grapes, wine, etc.) from a vat
- 2
to sober up; to sleep it off (to recover from the effects of self-induced acute alcohol intoxication)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre la vendange hors de la cuve. 2. Arrêter d’être ivre avec le temps.
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 décuver
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- décuvant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- décuvé participle past
- décuve first-person indicative present
- décuves indicative present second-person
- décuvons first-person indicative plural
- décuvez indicative plural present
- décuvent indicative plural present
- décuvais first-person imperfect indicative
- décuvait imperfect indicative singular
- décuvions first-person imperfect indicative
- décuviez imperfect indicative plural
- décuvaient imperfect indicative plural
- décuvai first-person historic indicative
- décuvas historic indicative past
- décuva historic indicative past
- décuvâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce décuver?
- /de.ky.ve/
- \de.ky.ve\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is décuver in French?
décuver appears about once in every 26 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).