meurtrir
French, verb/mœʁ.tʁiʁ/
meurtrir is spelled M-E-U-R-T-R-I-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written French, the 147,615th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Meurtrir is a French verb meaning “to injure, hurt; to bruise, especially in reference to fruit; to leave a contusion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tuer, assassiner”.
What does meurtrir mean in English?
verb
- 1
obsoleteto murder
- 2
to injure, hurt; to bruise, especially in reference to fruit; to leave a contusion
- 3
to hurt or injure someone's feelings
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tuer, assassiner. 2. Contusionner, blesser, choquer ou frapper au point de laisser une marque ou une ecchymose. 3. Blesser l'âme, en parlant d'une personne. 4. Gâter par des coups, en parlant de fruits.
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 meurtrir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- meurtrissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- meurtri participle past
- meurtris first-person indicative present
- meurtrit indicative present singular
- meurtrissons first-person indicative plural
- meurtrissez indicative plural present
- meurtrissent indicative plural present
- meurtrissais first-person imperfect indicative
- meurtrissait imperfect indicative singular
- meurtrissions first-person imperfect indicative
- meurtrissiez imperfect indicative plural
- meurtrissaient imperfect indicative plural
- meurtrîmes first-person historic indicative
- meurtrîtes historic indicative past
- meurtrirent historic indicative past
- meurtrirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce meurtrir?
- /mœʁ.tʁiʁ/
- \mœʁ.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 meurtrir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is meurtrir in French?
meurtrir appears about once in every 21 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).