renâcler
French, verb/ʁə.na.kle/
renâcler is a French verb meaning “to display fear, anger or reluctance by snorting (of animals, especially horses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Renifler bruyamment en signe de colère, en particulier en parlant des animaux”.
What does renâcler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to display fear, anger or reluctance by snorting (of animals, especially horses)
Devant l'obstacle, le cheval s'arrêta net en renâclant.
- 2
to display reluctance
Il prit le balais et la serpillière et s'activa à la tâche, non sans avoir renâclé bruyamment.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Renifler bruyamment en signe de colère, en particulier en parlant des animaux. 2. Témoigner de la répugnance pour quelque chose, rechigner.
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 renâcler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- renâclant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- renâclé participle past
- renâcle first-person indicative present
- renâcles indicative present second-person
- renâclons first-person indicative plural
- renâclez indicative plural present
- renâclent indicative plural present
- renâclais first-person imperfect indicative
- renâclait imperfect indicative singular
- renâclions first-person imperfect indicative
- renâcliez imperfect indicative plural
- renâclaient imperfect indicative plural
- renâclai first-person historic indicative
- renâclas historic indicative past
- renâcla historic indicative past
- renâclâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce renâcler?
- /ʁə.na.kle/
- /ʁə.nɑ.kle/
- \ʁə.nɑ.kle\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is renâcler in French?
renâcler appears about once in every 42 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).