What does écorcher in French mean?
What is the meaning of the word écorcher in French? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use écorcher in French.
The word écorcher in French means skin, flay, catch, mangle, graze, scratch, mispronounce a name, roughen your hands, ruin your hands, damage your hands. To learn more, please see the details below.
Meaning of the word écorcher
skin, flayverbe transitif (ôter la peau) (transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.") Jacquou écorchait un lapin en vingt secondes. Jack would skin a rabbit in twenty seconds. |
catchverbe transitif (égratigner) (transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.") En rampant sous les barbelés, Georges a écorché son pull. George caught his jumper on the barbed wire as he crawled under it. |
mangleverbe transitif (déformer, estropier) (figurative) (transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.") Ce présentateur TV écorche souvent le nom des intervenants. This TV presenter often mangles the names of the speakers. |
graze, scratchverbe pronominal (s'égratigner) (transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.") En rampant sous les barbelés, Georges s'était profondément écorché le dos. George had badly grazed his back crawling under the barbed wire. |
mispronounce a namelocution verbale (péjoratif (mal prononcer un nom) |
roughen your hands, ruin your hands, damage your hands(égratigner ses mains) (verbal expression: Phrase with special meaning functioning as verb--for example, "put their heads together," "come to an end.") |
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