évaser
French, verb/e.va.ze/
évaser is spelled É-V-A-S-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 68 million words in written French, the 258,710th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Évaser is a French verb meaning “to widen, open out or splay” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Élargir, rendre une chose plus large à son ouverture”.
What does évaser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to widen, open out or splay
- 2
to flare
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Élargir, rendre une chose plus large à son ouverture. 2. Faire prendre plus de circonférence.
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 évaser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- évasant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- évasé participle past
- évase first-person indicative present
- évases indicative present second-person
- évasons first-person indicative plural
- évasez indicative plural present
- évasent indicative plural present
- évasais first-person imperfect indicative
- évasait imperfect indicative singular
- évasions first-person imperfect indicative
- évasiez imperfect indicative plural
- évasaient imperfect indicative plural
- évasai first-person historic indicative
- évasas historic indicative past
- évasa historic indicative past
- évasâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce évaser?
- /e.va.ze/
- \e.vɑ.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is évaser in French?
évaser appears about once in every 68 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).