rabougrir
French, verb/ʁa.bu.ɡʁiʁ/
rabougrir is spelled R-A-B-O-U-G-R-I-R (9 letters). Rabougrir is a French verb meaning “to stunt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Gêner, empêcher le développement d’un arbre, d’une plante. Il ne se dit proprement qu’en parlant des arbres…”.
What does rabougrir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stunt
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Gêner, empêcher le développement d’un arbre, d’une plante. Il ne se dit proprement qu’en parlant des arbres et des plantes que la mauvaise nature de la terre, les vents ou quelque autre cause empêchent de profiter. 2. Décroître, rétrécir.
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 rabougrir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- rabougrissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- rabougri participle past
- rabougris first-person indicative present
- rabougrit indicative present singular
- rabougrissons first-person indicative plural
- rabougrissez indicative plural present
- rabougrissent indicative plural present
- rabougrissais first-person imperfect indicative
- rabougrissait imperfect indicative singular
- rabougrissions first-person imperfect indicative
- rabougrissiez imperfect indicative plural
- rabougrissaient imperfect indicative plural
- rabougrîmes first-person historic indicative
- rabougrîtes historic indicative past
- rabougrirent historic indicative past
- rabougrirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rabougrir?
- /ʁa.bu.ɡʁiʁ/
- \ʁa.bu.ɡʁiʁ\
- [ʁa.bu.ɡʁiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.