envoler

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French

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Etymology

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From en (from) + voler. Unrelated to Latin involāre.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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envoler

  1. (reflexive) to take off, to take flight
  2. (reflexive) to blow away
  3. (reflexive) to fly (of time)
    • 1820, Alphonse de Lamartine, “Le Lac”, in Premières méditations poétiques[1]:
      Temps jaloux, se peut-il que ces moments d’ivresse, ¶ Où l’amour à longs flots nous verse le bonheur, ¶ S’envolent loin de nous de la même vitesse ¶ Que les jours de malheur ?
      Jealous time, could it be that these drunken moments ¶ Where love in long floods pours us enjoyment ¶ Fly off far from us at the same speed ¶ As the days of hardship?
  4. (reflexive, colloquial) to vanish, disappear, walk (to be stolen)

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