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démembré

French, verb

démembré is spelled D-É-M-E-M-B-R-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 47,811th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Démembré is a French verb meaning “past participle of démembrer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, démembre is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.

What does démembré mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of démembrer

verb

as démembre
  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Partie de l’être qui contient les attributs spirituels d’une famille. 2. Lieu destiné aux rituels pour les loas domestiques pour une même famille.

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 démembré

  • démembrée feminine
  • démembrés masculine plural
  • démembrées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is démembré in French?

démembré appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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