tourniquer
French, verb/tuʁ.ni.ke/
tourniquer is a French verb meaning “to wind (around)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tourner en rond”.
What does tourniquer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wind (around)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tourner en rond. 2. Faire tourner en rond.
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 tourniquer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- tourniquant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- tourniqué participle past
- tournique first-person indicative present
- tourniques indicative present second-person
- tourniquons first-person indicative plural
- tourniquez indicative plural present
- tourniquent indicative plural present
- tourniquais first-person imperfect indicative
- tourniquait imperfect indicative singular
- tourniquions first-person imperfect indicative
- tourniquiez imperfect indicative plural
- tourniquaient imperfect indicative plural
- tourniquai first-person historic indicative
- tourniquas historic indicative past
- tourniqua historic indicative past
- tourniquâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tourniquer?
- /tuʁ.ni.ke/
- \tuʁ.ni.ke\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.