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Dévolu à

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Intended for, reserved for

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À bon droit

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For good reason

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Une dernière demeure

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A final resting place

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Se traîner

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To crawl

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Envoûter

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To bewitch

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Un cocher

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A coach driver

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La croupe

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Hindquarters

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Un souci

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A marigold

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Octroyer

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To grant

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Une étendue

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An expanse

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Ceindre

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To encircle (ceignait)

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Une gravure

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An engraving, illustration

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Brouter

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To graze

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Gravir

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To climb up

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Une bâtisse

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A building, structure

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La tôle

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Sheet metal

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Une enfilade de

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A series, succession of

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Un nuisible

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A pest

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Une auréole

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A ring (stain)

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Assorti à

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Matching, going with

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En haillons

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In rags

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S’offusquer

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To take offence

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Un bail

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A lease

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Désemparé

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Distraught

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Démuni
Helpless
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Surplomber
To overlook
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Un soubresaut
An uprising
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Étourdir
To daze
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Altier, altière
Haughty, arrogant
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Écervelé
Scatter-brained
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Dévergondé
Depraved
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S'asseoir en tailleur
To sit cross-legged
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Buter sur
To stumble over, have trouble with
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Convoquer
To summon
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Un essaim
A swarm
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Croupi
Stagnant, rotted
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Être à l'affût (de)
To be on the lookout (for)
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Prendre qqn de court
To catch sb off-guard
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Farcir
To stuff
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Velléitaire
Indecisive
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Un bourreau
An executioner, persecutor
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Un recueil de nouvelles
A short story collection
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Enflé
Swollen
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Un aveu
A confession, admission
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Faire part de qqch
To tell/speak of sth
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La mièvrerie
Mushiness, sentimentality
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Écoeuré (par)
Nauseous (from), sickened (by)
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Planer
To linger, hover
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Lâche
Cowardly, weak
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Faire preuve de
To demonstrate
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Contraindre qqn à
To force sb to
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Glousser
To giggle
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À tue-tête
At the top of your voice / at max volume
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Une garnison
A garrison
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Désinvolte
Nonchalant
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Mitrailler
To spray, shower
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Assainir
To decontaminate, cleanse
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Pulluler
To be abundant, teem with
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Un perron
Front steps
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Une pioche
A pickaxe
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Une charrue
A plow
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Une crépitement
A crackling
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Un épi
An ear, cob
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Engloutir
To devour
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S'amonceler
To pile up
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Farouche
Fierce
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Bien portant
Stout, in good health
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Un chai
A winecellar
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Toiser
To look sb up and down
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Un bled
A godforsaken place
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Gronder
To scold
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Rosser
To beat, hit
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Un travers
A quirk
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Le carrelage
Tiles
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La hantise
Terror, dread
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Charrier
To carry, sweep along
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Vicié
Contaminated, tainted
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Faner
To fade, wilt
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Donner sur
To have a view of, look out onto
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Dorloter
To pamper, coddle
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Psalmodier
To chant, drone
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Un geinard, une geignarde
A whiner
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Fourbir
To polish
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Fourbir ses armes
To prepare for war
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Tenir rigueur à qqn de qqch
To hold sth against sb
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Dompter
To tame, subdue
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Asperger
To spritz
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Menu
Slender, slight
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Rêche
Coarse
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Une mèche
A lock, strand of hair
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Houspiller
To reprimand (formal)
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Une couleuvre
A garter snake
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Transi de froid
Chilled to the bone
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Un accès de rage
A fit of rage
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Caler
To stall (car)
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Errer
To roam
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Saillant
Prominent
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Ployer
To bend, sag
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Une entaille
A cut, gash
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Grelotter
To shiver
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Métif
Sickly, undersized
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Un bourrelet
A bulge, roll
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Un poussin
A chick
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Mesquin
Petty
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Jouer à la marelle
To play hopscotch
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Un pépiement
A chirping
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La vie citadine
City life
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Miner
To eat away at, wear down
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La franchise
Candor
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Une quinte de toux
A coughing fit
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Se délester de
To get rid of
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Avenant
Likeable
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Véreux
Shady, dishonest
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Troquer
To trade, swap
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Amoché
Banged up
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Les frusques
Rags, old clothes
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Un versant
A slope, side
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Une ortie
A nettle
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Un tracas
A bother
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Débonnaire
Easygoing
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Natter
To braid
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Se faire un sang d'encre
To be worried sick
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Griser
To go to your head, to intoxicate
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Un gouffre
A chasm, abyss
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Ébahir
To astonish
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Analphabète
Illiterate
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Éblouir
To dazzle
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Sur la pointe des pieds
On tiptoe
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Un torchon
A dish towel
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Broder
To embroider
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Agrémenter
To brighten up
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Une frayeur
A fear
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Dépecer
To carve up
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S'affairer
To busy yourself
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Une hottle
A sack (Santa)
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S'échiner (à)
To put a lot of effort (into)
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Éthéré
Ethereal
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Un apôtre
An apostle, disciple
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Sournoisement
Sneakily
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Millénaire
Ancient
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À même qqch
Directly from, directly on
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Lugubre
Gloomy, dreary
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Prendre qqn au piège
To entrap sb
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D'outre-tombe
From beyond the grave
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Recroquevillé
Shrivelled up
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Doser
To measure out
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Pétrir
To knead, mould
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Enduire qqch de qqch
To coat, slather sth with sth
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Une blatte
A roach
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Ausculter
To examine (medical)
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Déboussolé
Disoriented
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La paludisme
Malaria
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Raturer
To cross out
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Une ordonnance
A prescription
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Un bocal
A (fish) bowl, jar
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Un palais
A palate
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Fouler
To set foot on
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Mort-né
Stillborn
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Flétri
Wilted
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La médisance
Slander
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Le désarroi
Dismay, distress
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Savoir gré à qqn de
To be grateful to sb for
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S'enliser
To sink, get stuck
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Une baie vitrée
A patio door
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Receler
To contain, hold
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Fourbe
Hypocritical, deceitful
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Démanger
To itch
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(La) opiniâtreté
Tenacity
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Enjoindre qqn à
To order sb to
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Une embuscade
An ambush
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Un escarpin
A high heel shoe
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Tresser
To braid
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Un lampion
A paper lantern
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Avilir
To degrade, demean
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Une pale
A blade (machine)
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Épier
To spy on
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En contrebas
Further down
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Se tarir
To dry up
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Pour une fois
For once
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Le laiton
Brass
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Se morfondre
To mope around
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Raffoler de qqch
To love, be crazy about sth
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La boursouflure
Puffiness, swelling
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Une vasque
A basin
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Une cavale
An escape
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La bouillie
Mush, slop
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Cantonner
To restrict, limit
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Crever
To burst, kill
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Redevable de qqch à qqn
In debt to sb for sth
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Rechigner à
To be reluctant to
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Éraillé
Hoarse
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D'autant plus que
All the more so because
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Détaler
To run off
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(La) eau-de-vie
Brandy
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Échafauder
To construct, devise
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Se muer
To evolve, develop
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Un détenteur, une détentrice
A holder, bearer
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Tenailler
To torment
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Cossu
Opulent, affluent
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Affaissé
Drooping, sagging
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Entraîner
To take, sweep away, pull along
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Un internat
A boarding school
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Famélique
Gaunt
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(Le) émail
Enamel
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Entonner
To burst into (song)
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Le chantage
Blackmail, extortion
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Une chope
A (beer) mug
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Une mousson
A monsoon
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Une contremaître
A foreman
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Un rendement
A yield, output
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Une pépinière
A nursery (plants)
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Pourfendre
To fight against
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Élimé
Worn, frayed
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Un, une convive
A guest
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Sempiternel
Perpetual
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Dégriser
To sober up
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Longiligne
Slender
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Un cabri
A baby goat
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Éploré
Tearful
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Trapu
Stocky
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Un aternoiement
A postponement
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Valser
To hurtle
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Accaparer
To monopolize, take up all (sb's) time
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Les retrouvailles
A reunion
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Oisif
Idle
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La miséricorde
Mercy
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Acculer à
To push, force (sb) into
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Un caniveau
A gutter
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Un piaillement
A squawking
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Une bandoulière
A strap
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Un attentat
An attack
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Un bernard-l'hermite
A hermit crab
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Se dresser
To stand, rise
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Déchiqueter
To shred, tear apart
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Un cortège
A procession
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Engoncé
Bundled up
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Affolé
Distraught, panicked
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Glabre
Hairless, smooth
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Lapider
To stone
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La cécité
Blindness
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Joncher
To be scattered across
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Congédier
To dismiss, send (sb) away
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Une douve
A moat
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La pelure
The peel, skin
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Se lasser de
To get tired of
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Un barreau
A bar, rung
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Un drap
A sheet