délabrer
French, verb/de.la.bʁe/
délabrer is spelled D-É-L-A-B-R-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 39 million words in written French, the 198,467th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Délabrer is a French verb meaning “to destroy, to ruin, (of a building) to dilapidate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre en mauvais état, soit par un long usage, soit par vétusté, soit par manque de soin”.
What does délabrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to destroy, to ruin, (of a building) to dilapidate
- 2
to fall into ruin, become dilapidated
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre en mauvais état, soit par un long usage, soit par vétusté, soit par manque de soin.
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 délabrer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- délabrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- délabré participle past
- délabre first-person indicative present
- délabres indicative present second-person
- délabrons first-person indicative plural
- délabrez indicative plural present
- délabrent indicative plural present
- délabrais first-person imperfect indicative
- délabrait imperfect indicative singular
- délabrions first-person imperfect indicative
- délabriez imperfect indicative plural
- délabraient imperfect indicative plural
- délabrai first-person historic indicative
- délabras historic indicative past
- délabra historic indicative past
- délabrâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce délabrer?
- /de.la.bʁe/
- /de.lɑ.bʁe/
- \de.lɑ.bʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is délabrer in French?
délabrer appears about once in every 39 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).