défleurir

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From dé- +‎ fleurir.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /de.flœ.ʁiʁ/
  • (file)

Verb[edit]

défleurir

  1. (intransitive) to shed blossoms[1]
  2. (transitive) "to nip or strip off blossoms; to take off the bloom of fruit (by handling it)"[2]

Conjugation[edit]

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

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