dépouiller

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French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French dépouiller, despouiller, from Old French despoillier, from Latin dēspoliāre. Compare Catalan despullar, Romanian despuia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /de.pu.je/
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Verb

dépouiller

  1. to skin (an animal)
  2. (figurative) to rob, despoil, rip off
    Synonym: détrousser
    • 2014, Édouard Louis, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule [The End of Eddy], Le Seuil:
      À Amiens y a que des Noirs et des bougnoules, des crouilles t’y vas tu crois que t’en Afrique. Faut pas aller là-bas, c’est sûr que tu te fais dépouiller.
      In Amiens there's only blacks and bougnoules, you go there and you think you're in Africa. Don't go there, you're sure to get ripped off.
  3. to count (votes); to go through (mail); to peruse, examine in detail
    dépouiller un dossier, un compte, un inventaireto go through a file, an account, an inventory
  4. (figurative) to strip, denude (of clothes, possessions etc.)
  5. (pronominal, literary) to divest oneself of
  6. (pronominal, of an animal) to shed its skin

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