desconfire

== Middle French == === Verb === desconfire to destroy; to wreck; to ruin === References === desconfire on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French) == Old French == === Verb === desconfire to destroy; to wreck; to ruin (figuratively, transitive) to discourage (figuratively, intransitive) to become discouraged ==== Conjugation ==== This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb ends in a palatal stem, so there is an extra i before the e of some endings. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide. === References === Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “desconfire”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.