planter

to plant; to drive in (a nail, stake etc.); to pitch (a tent); to flake, leave someone behind, by not showing up (for a meeting, date); to crash

“Il se dit qu'il ne ressortira plus jamais de cette cour des miracles, que dans dix minutes un petit nerveux va déboucher d'une venelle avec un couteau et le planter aussi sec.” — He thinks that he will never get out of this slum, that in ten minutes a jumpy little man will appear from an alleyway with a knife and stab him straight away.

Inherited from Old French, from Latin plantāre.