dévergonder
French, verb/de.vɛʁ.ɡɔ̃.de/
dévergonder is spelled D-É-V-E-R-G-O-N-D-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written French, the 190,022nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dévergonder is a French verb meaning “to break bad, be led astray” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire perdre toute honte, pousser à la débauche, au libertinage, dévoyer”.
What does dévergonder mean in English?
verb
- 1
to break bad, be led astray
- 2
rareto debauch, corrupt, pervert
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire perdre toute honte, pousser à la débauche, au libertinage, dévoyer. 2. Perdre toute honte, en particulier sur le plan des mœurs, adopter un comportement licencieux, se mettre à vivre d’une façon immorale.
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 dévergonder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dévergondant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dévergondé participle past
- dévergonde first-person indicative present
- dévergondes indicative present second-person
- dévergondons first-person indicative plural
- dévergondez indicative plural present
- dévergondent indicative plural present
- dévergondais first-person imperfect indicative
- dévergondait imperfect indicative singular
- dévergondions first-person imperfect indicative
- dévergondiez imperfect indicative plural
- dévergondaient imperfect indicative plural
- dévergondai first-person historic indicative
- dévergondas historic indicative past
- dévergonda historic indicative past
- dévergondâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dévergonder?
- /de.vɛʁ.ɡɔ̃.de/
- \de.vɛʁ.ɡɔ̃.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is dévergonder in French?
dévergonder appears about once in every 35 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).