démordre
French, verb/de.mɔʁdʁ/
démordre is spelled D-É-M-O-R-D-R-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written French, the 129,327th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Démordre is a French verb meaning “to let go, release (something held in the teeth)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Lâcher prise après avoir mordu”.
What does démordre mean in English?
verb
- 1
datedrareto let go, release (something held in the teeth)
- 2
colloquialto give up, abandon, renounce (an opinion, plan, etc.)
C'est mon opinion, et je n'en démords pas.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Lâcher prise après avoir mordu. 2. Se départir de quelque entreprise ou de quelque dessein ; abandonner une opinion ou un avis que l’on soutenait avec chaleur.
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 démordre
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- démordant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- démordu participle past
- démords first-person indicative present
- démord indicative present singular
- démordons first-person indicative plural
- démordez indicative plural present
- démordent indicative plural present
- démordais first-person imperfect indicative
- démordait imperfect indicative singular
- démordions first-person imperfect indicative
- démordiez imperfect indicative plural
- démordaient imperfect indicative plural
- démordis first-person historic indicative
- démordit historic indicative past
- démordîmes first-person historic indicative
- démordîtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce démordre?
- /de.mɔʁdʁ/
- \de.mɔʁdʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is démordre in French?
démordre appears about once in every 16 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).