envenimer
French, verb/ɑ̃v.ni.me/
envenimer is spelled E-N-V-E-N-I-M-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 42,227th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Envenimer is a French verb meaning “to envenom” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Infecter de venin”.
What does envenimer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to envenom
- 2
to aggravate, inflame
N'envenime pas les choses
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Infecter de venin. 2. Enflammer, rendre plus douloureuse, plus difficile à guérir, une blessure ou une plaie. 3. Aggraver une situation. 4. Rapporter un discours, un fait, le récit d’un fait, d’une manière perfide.
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 envenimer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- envenimant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- envenimé participle past
- envenime first-person indicative present
- envenimes indicative present second-person
- envenimons first-person indicative plural
- envenimez indicative plural present
- enveniment indicative plural present
- envenimais first-person imperfect indicative
- envenimait imperfect indicative singular
- envenimions first-person imperfect indicative
- envenimiez imperfect indicative plural
- envenimaient imperfect indicative plural
- envenimai first-person historic indicative
- envenimas historic indicative past
- envenima historic indicative past
- envenimâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce envenimer?
- /ɑ̃v.ni.me/
- \ɑ̃v.ni.me\
- \ɑ̃.və.ni.me\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is envenimer in French?
envenimer appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).