exténuer
French, verb/ɛk.ste.nɥe/
exténuer is spelled E-X-T-É-N-U-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 34 million words in written French, the 186,002nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Exténuer is a French verb meaning “to extenuate, weaken, exhaust” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Affaiblir extrêmement par la maladie, la fatigue ou les excès”.
What does exténuer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to extenuate, weaken, exhaust
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Affaiblir extrêmement par la maladie, la fatigue ou les excès.
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 exténuer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- exténuant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- exténué participle past
- exténue first-person indicative present
- exténues indicative present second-person
- exténuons first-person indicative plural
- exténuez indicative plural present
- exténuent indicative plural present
- exténuais first-person imperfect indicative
- exténuait imperfect indicative singular
- exténuions first-person imperfect indicative
- exténuiez imperfect indicative plural
- exténuaient imperfect indicative plural
- exténuai first-person historic indicative
- exténuas historic indicative past
- exténua historic indicative past
- exténuâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce exténuer?
- /ɛk.ste.nɥe/
- \ɛk.ste.nɥe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is exténuer in French?
exténuer appears about once in every 34 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).