verb/kʁɛ̃dʁ/
to fear; to suck (to be unwanted or bad)
“J'ai perdu mon portefeuille. — Merde, ça craint.” — I've lost my wallet. — Shit, that sucks.
Inherited from Middle French, from Old French criembre, criendre (later creindre), from Classical Latin tremere, from Proto-Indo-European *trem- (“to tremble”). Altered into a regional Gallo-Romance Vulgar Latin form *cremere, with the initial c- under the influence of the Celtic root *krit- (Breton kridien, Scottish Gaelic crith), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *krey-. Compare the similar Occitan crénher.