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meuler

French, verb/mø.le/

meuler is a French verb meaning “to sharpen on a grindstone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Passer (quelque chose) à la meule”.

What does meuler mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to sharpen on a grindstone

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Passer (quelque chose) à la meule. 2. Frapper quelqu’un, le défigurer

verb: 1. Faire froid.

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 meuler

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • meulant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • meulé participle past
  • meule first-person indicative present
  • meules indicative present second-person
  • meulons first-person indicative plural
  • meulez indicative plural present
  • meulent indicative plural present
  • meulais first-person imperfect indicative
  • meulait imperfect indicative singular
  • meulions first-person imperfect indicative
  • meuliez imperfect indicative plural
  • meulaient imperfect indicative plural
  • meulai first-person historic indicative
  • meulas historic indicative past
  • meula historic indicative past
  • meulâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce meuler?

  • /mø.le/
  • \mø.le\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to meuler

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is meuler in French?

meuler appears about once in every 26 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).