empirer
French, verb/ɑ̃.pi.ʁe/
empirer is spelled E-M-P-I-R-E-R (7 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written French, the 18,149th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empirer is a French verb meaning “to worsen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre pire, faire devenir de pire qualité, de pire condition, mettre en pire état”.
What does empirer mean in English?
verb
- 1
rareto worsen
- 2
to worsen
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre pire, faire devenir de pire qualité, de pire condition, mettre en pire état. 2. Devenir pire, tomber en pire état.
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 empirer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- empirant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- empiré participle past
- empire first-person indicative present
- empires indicative present second-person
- empirons first-person indicative plural
- empirez indicative plural present
- empirent indicative plural present
- empirais first-person imperfect indicative
- empirait imperfect indicative singular
- empirions first-person imperfect indicative
- empiriez imperfect indicative plural
- empiraient imperfect indicative plural
- empirai first-person historic indicative
- empiras historic indicative past
- empira historic indicative past
- empirâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce empirer?
- /ɑ̃.pi.ʁe/
- \ɑ̃.pi.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to empirer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is empirer in French?
empirer appears 2.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).