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enflure: weal; swelling; bastard, scumbag
enflé: swollen
enfoirer: to cover with excrement
enfoiré: dickhead, fuckhead, shithead
enfoncement: breaking down, breaking open (of a door etc.); breaking through (enemy lines); driving in (of a stake, post etc.); sinking (of foundations); recess, nook, cranny; dip, slide
enfoncer: to push in, to press in, to drive in; to break open, to break down; to defeat, to thrash; to sink down; to bury oneself; to immerse oneself
enfoncer des portes ouvertes: to state the obvious as though it were new or controversial; to try to force or persuade someone who is already convinced; ≈ to preach to the choir
enfoncer le clou: to ram something home, to drive a lesson home (to repeat something insistently so that it is understood)
enfoncer le couteau dans la plaie: synonym of remuer le couteau dans la plaie
enfonceur: pusher, presser (someone who pushes or presses)
enfoncé: deep-set
enfouir: to bury, to inter (something in the ground); to bury
enfouissement: burying; landfilling
enfouisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of enfouir
enfourcher: to get on, mount
enfournement: charging / loading an oven (with bread etc)
enfourner: to put in the oven
enfreindre: to infringe
enfreinte: infraction
enfuir: to escape (somewhere); to flee
enfumer: to smoke, smoke out; to smoke up
enfumoir: bee smoker
enfumé: smoked up; blackened by smoke
enfutailler: to cask
enfuter: post-1990 spelling of enfûter
enfûter: to put into a keg; cask or barrel
engageant: attractive, appealing, engaging, tempting, inviting
engagement: commitment; engagement
engager: to pledge, commit; to hire, sign, snap up; to involve; to encourage; to pawn
engagiste: a person who pledged support to the king and received land, title etc. in return
engainer: to sheathe
engaller: to dye black by passing through a decoction of gall
engamer: to swallow the hook along with the bait
engatse: problem, snag, nightmare, difficulty
engazonnement: turfing
engazonner: to turf
engeance: breed (of animals, especially those that fly); descendance, children, offspring; sort, type (of people); mob, brood
engeancer: to embarrass
engelure: chilblain
engendrement: fathering (of child)
engendrer: to generate, spawn, beget
engendreur: begetter
engin: any device, contraption or machinery, particularly a complex, dangerous or powerful one; a piece of military equipment; a piece of heavy machinery; any object whose name or function is unknown; a thingy; a gizmo; tool (penis)
englacé: glaciated
englobant: encompassing, including
englober: to include, to encompass
engloutir: to gulp; to swallow up
engloutissement: gobbling up (of food)
engloutisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of engloutir
engluage: liming
engluer: to birdlime; to get bogged down
engobe: engobe
engober: to cover with engobe
engommer: to apply rubber to
engoncé: constrained, squeezed into
engorgement: clogging; engorgement
engorger: to clog, clog up, congest
engouement: craze, zest (keen interest); obstruction
engouer: to become passionate or infatuated; to block the gullet when swallowing; to choke
engouffrer: to engulf, swallow up; to gobble up; to eat up; to rush, dive into