flétrir
French, verb/fle.tʁiʁ/
flétrir is spelled F-L-É-T-R-I-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 86,540th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flétrir is a French verb meaning “to wither” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Décolorer, faner entièrement, en parlant de fleurs, de feuillages”.
What does flétrir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wither
- 2
to wither, wilt, shrivel
verb
- 1
archaicto brand (as punishment)
- 2
archaicto condemn
For quotations using this term, see Citations:flétrir.
- 3
archaicto blacken, besmirch (someone's reputation etc.)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Décolorer, faner entièrement, en parlant de fleurs, de feuillages. 2. Donner l’aspect de la vieillesse, en parlant de certaines parties du corps humain. 3. Rendre dépourvu de sa fraîcheur, de son éclat, de son intégrité.
verb: 1. (En matière criminelle) Marquer d’un fer chaud en punition d’un crime. 2. Marquer d’infamie.
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 flétrir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- flétrissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- flétri participle past
- flétris first-person indicative present
- flétrit indicative present singular
- flétrissons first-person indicative plural
- flétrissez indicative plural present
- flétrissent indicative plural present
- flétrissais first-person imperfect indicative
- flétrissait imperfect indicative singular
- flétrissions first-person imperfect indicative
- flétrissiez imperfect indicative plural
- flétrissaient imperfect indicative plural
- flétrîmes first-person historic indicative
- flétrîtes historic indicative past
- flétrirent historic indicative past
- flétrirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flétrir?
- /fle.tʁiʁ/
- \fle.tʁiʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to flétrir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flétrir in French?
flétrir appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).