What does clouer in French mean?
What is the meaning of the word clouer in French? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use clouer in French.
The word clouer in French means nail, confine, pillory, pin down, root to the spot, shut up, root to the spot. To learn more, please see the details below.
Meaning of the word clouer
nailverbe transitif (fixer avec des clous) (transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.") Je cloue une planche sur la vieille porte pour la réparer. I am nailing a plank to the old door to fix it. |
confineverbe transitif (figuré (forcer à l'immobilité) (to bed) (transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.") Sa forte fièvre le cloue au lit. His high fever is confining him to bed. |
pillorylocution verbale (moquer publiquement) (transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.") |
pin down, root to the spotlocution verbale (figuré (bloquer au sol) (transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.") |
shut uplocution verbale (familier, figuré (faire taire [qqn]) (phrasal verb, transitive, separable: Verb with adverb(s) or preposition(s), having special meaning, divisible--for example, "call off" [=cancel], "call the game off," "call off the game.") Il était réduit au silence, dans l’impossibilité de répondre ; je lui avais cloué le bec. |
root to the spotlocution verbale (ébahir) (figurative) (verbal expression: Phrase with special meaning functioning as verb--for example, "put their heads together," "come to an end.") |
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