Grammatical class

Verb

acharner

(transitive) to incite; to sic [with direct object ‘someone or something, e.g. a dog’, along with après or contre or sur ‘on someone/something’]

Details

Syllables

a-char-ner

Phonetics

a.ʃaʁ.ne

Grammatical class

Verb

Freq. (books)

20314

Freq. (movies)

31256

Freq. (news)

24371

Sentences

Enfin, notre hidalgo s’acharna tellement à sa lecture, que ses nuits se passaient en lisant du soir au matin, et ses jours, du matin au soir.

Finally, our hidalgo attached himself so much to his reading that his nights were spent reading from evening to morning, and his days, from morning to evening.

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