repousser
French, verb/ʁə.pu.se/
repousser is spelled R-E-P-O-U-S-S-E-R (9 letters) and appears 8.7 times per million words in written French, the 7,421st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Repousser is a French verb meaning “to push back, push out of the way” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pousser en arrière, rejeter ; faire reculer quelqu’un, écarter de soi quelque chose”.
What does repousser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to push back, push out of the way
- 2
to repel, drive back, repulse
- 3
to ward off, turn away
- 4
to turn down, dismiss, reject, rule out
- 5
to push back (into place)
- 6
to put off, defer, put back, postpone
- 7
to repulse, repel (of something disgusting)
- 8
to (hand-)emboss
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Pousser en arrière, rejeter ; faire reculer quelqu’un, écarter de soi quelque chose. 2. Rejeter ; refuser. 3. Pousser de nouveau. 4. Exercer une force, une pression.
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 repousser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- repoussant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- repoussé participle past
- repousse first-person indicative present
- repousses indicative present second-person
- repoussons first-person indicative plural
- repoussez indicative plural present
- repoussent indicative plural present
- repoussais first-person imperfect indicative
- repoussait imperfect indicative singular
- repoussions first-person imperfect indicative
- repoussiez imperfect indicative plural
- repoussaient imperfect indicative plural
- repoussai first-person historic indicative
- repoussas historic indicative past
- repoussa historic indicative past
- repoussâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce repousser?
- /ʁə.pu.se/
- \ʁə.pu.se\
- [ʁǝ.pu.se]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to repousser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is repousser in French?
repousser appears 8.7 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).