effarer
French, verb/e.fa.ʁe/
effarer is spelled E-F-F-A-R-E-R (7 letters). Effarer is a French verb meaning “to alarm; to shake up; to scare” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Troubler tellement une personne ou un animal que son air et ses yeux ont quelque chose de hagard, frapper de…”.
What does effarer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to alarm; to shake up; to scare
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Troubler tellement une personne ou un animal que son air et ses yeux ont quelque chose de hagard, frapper de quelque trouble moral qui se peint sur la physionomie. 2. Frapper de terreur, effrayer. 3. Faire pâlir; faire perdre son fard. 4. Devenir hagard.
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 effarer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- effarant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- effaré participle past
- effare first-person indicative present
- effares indicative present second-person
- effarons first-person indicative plural
- effarez indicative plural present
- effarent indicative plural present
- effarais first-person imperfect indicative
- effarait imperfect indicative singular
- effarions first-person imperfect indicative
- effariez imperfect indicative plural
- effaraient imperfect indicative plural
- effarai first-person historic indicative
- effaras historic indicative past
- effara historic indicative past
- effarâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce effarer?
- /e.fa.ʁe/
- \e.fa.ʁe\
- [e.fa.ʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.