écraser

== French == === Etymology === From Middle French ecraser (“to squash”), from Middle English crasen (“to break, shatter”), from Old Norse *krasa (“to shatter”), ultimately imitative. More at craze. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /e.kʁa.ze/ === Verb === écraser to squash to obliterate (cooking) to mash (vegetables), to crush (garlic) (figuratively) to thrash, to crush, to win by a large margin (France, slang, reflexive) to shut up (reflexive, of an aircraft) to crash (computing) to overwrite ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== chiens écrasés écrasement écrase-merde écraser une mouche avec un marteau === References === === Further reading === “écraser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 “écraser”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse “écraser” in Dico en ligne Le Robert. === Anagrams === carrées, créeras, escarre, recréas