dégriser
French, verb/de.ɡʁi.ze/
dégriser is spelled D-É-G-R-I-S-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 31 million words in written French, the 177,898th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dégriser is a French verb meaning “to sober up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tirer quelqu’un de l’ivresse”.
What does dégriser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sober up
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tirer quelqu’un de l’ivresse. 2. Tirer de l’illusion, du charme, de l’espérance.
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 dégriser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dégrisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dégrisé participle past
- dégrise first-person indicative present
- dégrises indicative present second-person
- dégrisons first-person indicative plural
- dégrisez indicative plural present
- dégrisent indicative plural present
- dégrisais first-person imperfect indicative
- dégrisait imperfect indicative singular
- dégrisions first-person imperfect indicative
- dégrisiez imperfect indicative plural
- dégrisaient imperfect indicative plural
- dégrisai first-person historic indicative
- dégrisas historic indicative past
- dégrisa historic indicative past
- dégrisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dégriser?
- /de.ɡʁi.ze/
- \de.ɡʁi.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is dégriser in French?
dégriser appears about once in every 31 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).