empoisonner
French, verb/ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.ne/
empoisonner is spelled E-M-P-O-I-S-O-N-N-E-R (11 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written French, the 25,592nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empoisonner is a French verb meaning “to poison, to kill by poisoning” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire mourir ou essayer de faire mourir par le poison”.
What does empoisonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to poison, to kill by poisoning
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire mourir ou essayer de faire mourir par le poison. 2. Infecter de poison. 3. Faire mourir par une qualité vénéneuse, en parlant de certaines substances. 4. Produire des émanations extrêmement infectes.
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 empoisonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- empoisonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- empoisonné participle past
- empoisonne first-person indicative present
- empoisonnes indicative present second-person
- empoisonnons first-person indicative plural
- empoisonnez indicative plural present
- empoisonnent indicative plural present
- empoisonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- empoisonnait imperfect indicative singular
- empoisonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- empoisonniez imperfect indicative plural
- empoisonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- empoisonnai first-person historic indicative
- empoisonnas historic indicative past
- empoisonna historic indicative past
- empoisonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce empoisonner?
- /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.ne/
- \ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.ne\
- [ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.ne]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to empoisonner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is empoisonner in French?
empoisonner appears 1.4 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).