avachir

From Middle French avachir (“to lose one's energy or force”), from Old French avachir (“to sag”), a borrowing from Old Frankish *waikijan (“to soften”), from Proto-Germanic *waikwijaną (“to soften, make pliable, avoid”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyg-, *weyk- (“soft, pliable; to bend, avoid”). Cognate with Old High German weihjan (“to soften”), Old English wǣcan (“to weaken, oppress, trouble”), Old Norse veikja (“to bow, make feeble, weaken”). More at weak.

• IPA^(key): /a.va.ʃiʁ/

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avachir

1. to make soft; make limp or flabby; cause to sag.
2. to render incapable of producing effort.

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

• avachi
• avachissable
• avachissant
• avachissement

• “avachir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).