embucher
French, verb
embucher is spelled E-M-B-U-C-H-E-R (8 letters). Embucher is a French verb meaning “post-1990 spelling of embûcher” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, embûcher is a different word: “to make enter its lair”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante orthographique de embûcher”.
What does embucher mean in English?
verb
- 1
post-1990 spelling of embûcher
verb
- 1
to make enter its lair
- 2
datedto ambush
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Commencer la coupe d’un bois. 2. Faire rentrer dans le bois, dans son buisson, dans son gîte.
verb: 1. Variante orthographique de embûcher.
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 embucher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- embuchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- embuché participle past
- embuche first-person indicative present
- embuches indicative present second-person
- embuchons first-person indicative plural
- embuchez indicative plural present
- embuchent indicative plural present
- embuchais first-person imperfect indicative
- embuchait imperfect indicative singular
- embuchions first-person imperfect indicative
- embuchiez imperfect indicative plural
- embuchaient imperfect indicative plural
- embuchai first-person historic indicative
- embuchas historic indicative past
- embucha historic indicative past
- embuchâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).