écrasement

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from French écrasement (“crushing”). === Noun === écrasement (countable and uncountable, plural écrasements) (surgery) The operation of removing a part, as a tumor, by a wire or chain loop gradually tightened so as to cut slowly through its attachment. ==== References ==== William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “écrasement”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. == French == === Etymology === From écraser (“to crush; to crash”) +‎ -ment. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /e.kʁaz.mɑ̃/ === Noun === écrasement m (plural écrasements) crushing crash (of an airplane) (computing) overwrite mode === Further reading === “écrasement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012