retrancher
French
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to deduct, take away, cut out delete
- (intransitive) to cut down
- (transitive) to cut off exclude, from e.g. society
- (archaic) to kill, to snuff out, to bump off
- (reflexive) to take shelter
- (reflexive) to entrench oneself
Etymology
Prefix from French trancher (slice).
Origin
French
trancher
Gloss
slice
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- retrench English
- retrencher English
- retrenchment English
- transeerata Finnish
- trinciare Italian
- retranchement French
- trancher French
- retranchier Old French
- trenchier Old French
- tranĉi Esperanto