délaver
French, verb/de.la.ve/
délaver is spelled D-É-L-A-V-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 83 million words in written French, the 285,390th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Délaver is a French verb meaning “to soak” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Enlever ou affaiblir avec de l’eau une couleur étendue sur du papier”.
What does délaver mean in English?
verb
- 1
to soak
- 2
to fade
- 3
to wash out
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Enlever ou affaiblir avec de l’eau une couleur étendue sur du papier. 2. Affaiblir la couleur d'un objet. 3. Imbiber d’eau.
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 délaver
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- délavant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- délavé participle past
- délave first-person indicative present
- délaves indicative present second-person
- délavons first-person indicative plural
- délavez indicative plural present
- délavent indicative plural present
- délavais first-person imperfect indicative
- délavait imperfect indicative singular
- délavions first-person imperfect indicative
- délaviez imperfect indicative plural
- délavaient imperfect indicative plural
- délavai first-person historic indicative
- délavas historic indicative past
- délava historic indicative past
- délavâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce délaver?
- /de.la.ve/
- \de.la.ve\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is délaver in French?
délaver appears about once in every 83 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).