affile

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See also: affilé

English

Etymology

From Middle English affilen, from Old French afiler (modern French affiler (“to sharpen”)).

Pronunciation

Verb

affile (third-person singular simple present affiles, present participle affiling, simple past and past participle affiled)

  1. (obsolete) To polish.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “affile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

affile

  1. inflection of affiler:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative
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