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choir

/ʃwaʁ/

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verb/ʃwaʁ/

to fall

L'abandonnerez-vous à l'infâme couteau Qui fait choir les méchants sous la main d'un bourreau ?Would you abandon him to the infamous blade Which makes the wicked fall under the headman's hand?

Synonyms: tomber

Related: chute, déchoir, échoir, méchoir, rechoir

Inherited from Middle French cheoir, from Old French cheoir, from older chedeir, from Late Latin cadēre, from Latin cadĕre, from Proto-Italic *kadō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d- (“to fall”).