désemplir
French, verb/de.zɑ̃.pliʁ/
désemplir is spelled D-É-S-E-M-P-L-I-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 93 million words in written French, the 301,385th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Désemplir is a French verb meaning “to (partially) empty (something that is full up)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Vider en partie, faire qu’une chose qui était pleine le soit moins”.
What does désemplir mean in English?
verb
- 1
rareto (partially) empty (something that is full up)
- 2
to be nearly full (only used in negative constructions)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Vider en partie, faire qu’une chose qui était pleine le soit moins. 2. Cesser d’être plein.
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 désemplir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- désemplissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- désempli participle past
- désemplis first-person indicative present
- désemplit indicative present singular
- désemplissons first-person indicative plural
- désemplissez indicative plural present
- désemplissent indicative plural present
- désemplissais first-person imperfect indicative
- désemplissait imperfect indicative singular
- désemplissions first-person imperfect indicative
- désemplissiez imperfect indicative plural
- désemplissaient imperfect indicative plural
- désemplîmes first-person historic indicative
- désemplîtes historic indicative past
- désemplirent historic indicative past
- désemplirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce désemplir?
- /de.zɑ̃.pliʁ/
- \de.zɑ̃.pliʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is désemplir in French?
désemplir appears about once in every 93 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).