démunir
French, verb/de.my.niʁ/
démunir is spelled D-É-M-U-N-I-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 48 million words in written French, the 219,133rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Démunir is a French verb meaning “to deprive of, to divest of” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Priver de ce dont on est muni”.
What does démunir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to deprive of, to divest of
- 2
to leave oneself without, to deprive oneself of
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Priver de ce dont on est muni. 2. Se dépouiller des choses qu’on avait mises en réserve pour un besoin futur, pour un projet.
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 démunir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- démunissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- démuni participle past
- démunis first-person indicative present
- démunit indicative present singular
- démunissons first-person indicative plural
- démunissez indicative plural present
- démunissent indicative plural present
- démunissais first-person imperfect indicative
- démunissait imperfect indicative singular
- démunissions first-person imperfect indicative
- démunissiez imperfect indicative plural
- démunissaient imperfect indicative plural
- démunîmes first-person historic indicative
- démunîtes historic indicative past
- démunirent historic indicative past
- démunirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce démunir?
- /de.my.niʁ/
- \de.my.niʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is démunir in French?
démunir appears about once in every 48 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).