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affirmateur: affirming, affirmative
affirmatif: affirmative (which affirms)
affirmatif: affirmative
affirmation: affirmation
affirmativement: affirmatively
affirmer: to affirm, to claim
affirmer tout et son contraire: synonym of dire tout et son contraire
affixal: affixal
affixation: affixation
affixe: affix
affixer: to affix
affleurant: surfacing
affleurement: outcrop
affleurer: to place on the same level with, to show on the same surface; to crop up, to surface, to poke one's head out
afflictif: afflictive
affliction: affliction
affligeant: distressing, saddening; aggrieved
affliger: to grieve someone, to distress someone; to smite
afflouage: refloating
affluence: crowds; abundance
affluent: tributary
affluent: tributary; affluent
affluer: to flow (into) (said of rivers); to pour (in), to come in droves (said of people, things)
afflux: influx (inward flow); afflux
affolant: scary
affolement: panic, terror; insanity, craziness, lunacy
affoler: to madden, drive crazy (under the effects of a strong emotion); to terrify, frighten, scare; to run like crazy, leg it; to go crazy, go bonkers; to hurry up, to make haste
affordant: affordant
afforder: to afford
afforester: to afforest (grant the right to hunt in a forest)
affouage: a right to gather wood from common land
affouche: any of various species of Ficus native to the Mascarene Islands
affouillable: diggable, tillable
affouillement: scouring (by running water)
affouiller: to dig, to scour (said of a waterway)
affouragement: foddering
affourager: to fodder
affourcher: to anchor using the "forked moor" technique; to straddle; to attach pieces of wood using tongue and groove
affranchi: freedman (man who has been released from a condition of slavery)
affranchir: to free, liberate, enfranchise, emancipate; to discharge, exempt; to prepay (postage), frank (a letter); to pervert; to inform
affranchissement: manumission (release from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitude; the giving of freedom); franking, metering
affranchisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of affranchir
affranchisseur: manumitter
affres: torment, torture, pain; throes
affreusement: dreadfully (in a dreadful manner), horribly
affreux: frightful, causing fear; terrible, rubbish, awful; repulsive
affriander: to improve the taste of; to make delicious; to tempt using something tasty or profitable
affriolant: alluring, enticing
affrioler: to tempt; to entice; to seduce
affriquer: to affricate
affriqué: affricative
affriquée: affricate
affriter: to condition a frying pan (etc) before its first use by heating with some fat
affront: affront, insult, snub
affrontable: confrontable
affrontement: confrontation, encounter
affronter: to confront, face; to face off, to clash
affruiter: to fruit
affrèrement: adelphopoiesis (a ceremony where two men are united with one another)
affrètement: affreightment