sécher
French, verb/se.ʃe/
sécher is a French verb meaning “to dry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre sec”.
What does sécher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dry
- 2
informalto play truant
- 3
informalto dry up, to run out of things to say
- 4
to fail
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre sec. 2. Faire cesser l’affliction, en parlant des larmes ou des pleurs. 3. Mettre à sec. 4. Boire et vider complètement un verre ou une bouteille.
verb: 1. Sécher
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 sécher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- séchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- séché participle past
- sèche first-person indicative present
- sèches indicative present second-person
- séchons first-person indicative plural
- séchez indicative plural present
- sèchent indicative plural present
- séchais first-person imperfect indicative
- séchait imperfect indicative singular
- séchions first-person imperfect indicative
- séchiez imperfect indicative plural
- séchaient imperfect indicative plural
- séchai first-person historic indicative
- séchas historic indicative past
- sécha historic indicative past
- séchâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sécher?
- /se.ʃe/
- \se.ʃe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sécher
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sécher in French?
sécher appears 5.5 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).