dessaisir
French, verb/de.sɛ.ziʁ/
dessaisir is spelled D-E-S-S-A-I-S-I-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 84,649th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dessaisir is a French verb meaning “to disseize, dispossess, or deprive of (the possession or the administration of), (law) to withdraw from (an authority) (a case or…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Déposséder un tribunal de ce dont il a été saisi”.
What does dessaisir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to disseize, dispossess, or deprive of (the possession or the administration of), (law) to withdraw from (an authority) (a case or proceedings)
- 2
to deprive oneself of, to give up (the possession [or the administration] of), to relinquish, to part with, to let go, (law) to divest oneself of, (of an authority) to relinquish jurisdiction in (a case or proceedings)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Déposséder un tribunal de ce dont il a été saisi. 2. Retirer un droit ou un bien à, priver ou frustrer d'une prérogative ou d'un bien. 3. Se déposséder volontairement.
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 dessaisir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dessaisissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dessaisi participle past
- dessaisis first-person indicative present
- dessaisit indicative present singular
- dessaisissons first-person indicative plural
- dessaisissez indicative plural present
- dessaisissent indicative plural present
- dessaisissais first-person imperfect indicative
- dessaisissait imperfect indicative singular
- dessaisissions first-person imperfect indicative
- dessaisissiez imperfect indicative plural
- dessaisissaient imperfect indicative plural
- dessaisîmes first-person historic indicative
- dessaisîtes historic indicative past
- avoir dessaisi infinitive past
- en dessaisissant gerund present
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dessaisir?
- /de.sɛ.ziʁ/
- /de.se.ziʁ/
- \de.sɛ.ziʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is dessaisir in French?
dessaisir appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).