détrousser
French, verb/de.tʁu.se/
détrousser is spelled D-É-T-R-O-U-S-S-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 104,709th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Détrousser is a French verb meaning “to rob someone of what they are wearing or carrying; to mug” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dépouiller par la violence quelqu’un de ce qu’il porte sur lui ou avec lui”.
What does détrousser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to rob someone of what they are wearing or carrying; to mug
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dépouiller par la violence quelqu’un de ce qu’il porte sur lui ou avec lui. 2. Escroquer.
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 détrousser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- détroussant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- détroussé participle past
- détrousse first-person indicative present
- détrousses indicative present second-person
- détroussons first-person indicative plural
- détroussez indicative plural present
- détroussent indicative plural present
- détroussais first-person imperfect indicative
- détroussait imperfect indicative singular
- détroussions first-person imperfect indicative
- détroussiez imperfect indicative plural
- détroussaient imperfect indicative plural
- détroussai first-person historic indicative
- détroussas historic indicative past
- détroussa historic indicative past
- détroussâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce détrousser?
- /de.tʁu.se/
- \det.ʁu.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is détrousser in French?
détrousser appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).