écimer
French, verb/e.si.me/
écimer is spelled É-C-I-M-E-R (6 letters). Écimer is a French verb meaning “to pollard, to prune a tree's top to improve the growth of its lower parts” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dégarnir un arbre de sa cime”.
What does écimer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pollard, to prune a tree's top to improve the growth of its lower parts
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dégarnir un arbre de sa cime.
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 écimer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- écimant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- écimé participle past
- écime first-person indicative present
- écimes indicative present second-person
- écimons first-person indicative plural
- écimez indicative plural present
- éciment indicative plural present
- écimais first-person imperfect indicative
- écimait imperfect indicative singular
- écimions first-person imperfect indicative
- écimiez imperfect indicative plural
- écimaient imperfect indicative plural
- écimai first-person historic indicative
- écimas historic indicative past
- écima historic indicative past
- écimâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce écimer?
- /e.si.me/
- \e.si.me\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.