engrosser

English

Etymology

engross +‎ -er

Noun

engrosser (plural engrossers)

1. One who copies a piece of writing in large, attractive characters.
2. One who takes the whole; a purchaser of such quantities in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “engrosser”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

Etymology

From en- +‎ gros +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.se/

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Verb

engrosser

1. (colloquial, transitive) to impregnate, to knock up

   Synonym: encloquer

Conjugation

Conjugation of engrosser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	engrosser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	engrossant /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		engrossé /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	engrosse /ɑ̃.ɡʁos/	engrosses /ɑ̃.ɡʁos/	engrosse /ɑ̃.ɡʁos/	engrossons /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sɔ̃/	engrossez /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.se/	engrossent /ɑ̃.ɡʁos/
	imperfect	engrossais /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sɛ/	engrossais /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sɛ/	engrossait /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sɛ/	engrossions /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sjɔ̃/	engrossiez /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sje/	engrossaient /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sɛ/
	past historic2	engrossai /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.se/	engrossas /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sa/	engrossa /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sa/	engrossâmes /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sam/	engrossâtes /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sat/	engrossèrent /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sɛʁ/
	future	engrosserai /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sʁe/	engrosseras /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sʁa/	engrossera /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sʁa/	engrosserons /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sʁɔ̃/	engrosserez /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sʁe/	engrosseront /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	engrosserais /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sʁɛ/	engrosserais /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sʁɛ/	engrosserait /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sʁɛ/	engrosserions /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	engrosseriez /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sə.ʁje/	engrosseraient /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	engrosse /ɑ̃.ɡʁos/	engrosses /ɑ̃.ɡʁos/	engrosse /ɑ̃.ɡʁos/	engrossions /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sjɔ̃/	engrossiez /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sje/	engrossent /ɑ̃.ɡʁos/
	imperfect2	engrossasse /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sas/	engrossasses /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sas/	engrossât /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sa/	engrossassions /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sa.sjɔ̃/	engrossassiez /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sa.sje/	engrossassent /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	engrosse /ɑ̃.ɡʁos/	—	engrossons /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sɔ̃/	engrossez /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.se/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “engrosser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.