exhausser
French, verb/ɛɡ.zo.se/
exhausser is spelled E-X-H-A-U-S-S-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written French, the 155,929th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Exhausser is a French verb meaning “to raise up, erect (a building)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Élever, surélever, augmenter la hauteur en parlant surtout de constructions, d’édifices”.
What does exhausser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to raise up, erect (a building)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Élever, surélever, augmenter la hauteur en parlant surtout de constructions, d’édifices.
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 exhausser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- exhaussant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- exhaussé participle past
- exhausse first-person indicative present
- exhausses indicative present second-person
- exhaussons first-person indicative plural
- exhaussez indicative plural present
- exhaussent indicative plural present
- exhaussais first-person imperfect indicative
- exhaussait imperfect indicative singular
- exhaussions first-person imperfect indicative
- exhaussiez imperfect indicative plural
- exhaussaient imperfect indicative plural
- exhaussai first-person historic indicative
- exhaussas historic indicative past
- exhaussa historic indicative past
- exhaussâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce exhausser?
- /ɛɡ.zo.se/
- \ɛɡ.zo.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is exhausser in French?
exhausser appears about once in every 23 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).