supplicier
French, verb/sy.pli.sje/
supplicier is spelled S-U-P-P-L-I-C-I-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 50 million words in written French, the 223,977th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Supplicier is a French verb meaning “to kill by torture” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire souffrir le supplice de la mort”.
What does supplicier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to kill by torture
Il fut supplicié en place de Grève.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire souffrir le supplice de la mort. 2. Faire souffrir vivement.
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 supplicier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- suppliciant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- supplicié participle past
- supplicie first-person indicative present
- supplicies indicative present second-person
- supplicions first-person indicative plural
- suppliciez indicative plural present
- supplicient indicative plural present
- suppliciais first-person imperfect indicative
- suppliciait imperfect indicative singular
- suppliciions first-person imperfect indicative
- suppliciiez imperfect indicative plural
- suppliciaient imperfect indicative plural
- suppliciai first-person historic indicative
- supplicias historic indicative past
- supplicia historic indicative past
- suppliciâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce supplicier?
- /sy.pli.sje/
- \sy.pli.sje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is supplicier in French?
supplicier appears about once in every 50 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).