galvauder
French, verb/ɡal.vo.de/
galvauder is spelled G-A-L-V-A-U-D-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written French, the 123,735th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Galvauder is a French verb meaning “to tarnish, sully, debase, bring into disrepute” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Altérer, déformer, mal employer, gâcher une chose, un avantage, une qualité”.
What does galvauder mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tarnish, sully, debase, bring into disrepute
- 2
informalto waste; to squander
galvauder les dons qu’on a reçus de la nature
- 3
to overuse, render trite
- 4
to be lazy, loaf around
Il reste là à galvauder.
- 5
to demean oneself, compromise oneself
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Altérer, déformer, mal employer, gâcher une chose, un avantage, une qualité. 2. Traîner, muser sans rien faire. 3. Se compromettre ; s’avilir.
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 galvauder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- galvaudant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- galvaudé participle past
- galvaude first-person indicative present
- galvaudes indicative present second-person
- galvaudons first-person indicative plural
- galvaudez indicative plural present
- galvaudent indicative plural present
- galvaudais first-person imperfect indicative
- galvaudait imperfect indicative singular
- galvaudions first-person imperfect indicative
- galvaudiez imperfect indicative plural
- galvaudaient imperfect indicative plural
- galvaudai first-person historic indicative
- galvaudas historic indicative past
- galvauda historic indicative past
- galvaudâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce galvauder?
- /ɡal.vo.de/
- /ɡal.vɔ.de/
- \ɡal.vɔ.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to galvauder
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is galvauder in French?
galvauder appears about once in every 14 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).