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mesuré: measured; moderate, modest; prudent
mesurément: measuredly; moderately, modestly; prudently
metal: metal (music style)
metal chrétien: Christian metal
metche: match (device to make fire)
metformine: metformin
metribuzine: metribuzin
mets: dish
mets-en: Expresses support, agreement, certainty or emphasis.
mettable: wearable; fuckable
metteur: putter, placer (someone who puts or places); director
metteur en scène: director
metteure: only used in metteure en scène (“female film director”)
metteure en scène: synonym of metteuse en scène
mettre: to put; to place; to put on; to set; to start (something / doing something); to get around to it
mettre au ban: to ban, to ostracize, to exclude, to reject
mettre au clair: to clear up; set straight
mettre au courant: to inform, to brief, to fill in
mettre au défi: to challenge, to dare, to defy (someone to do something)
mettre au fait: to put in the picture, to bring up to speed, to make aware
mettre au jour: to bring to light
mettre au monde: to give birth, to bring into the world
mettre au parfum: to put in the know, to clue in, to put in the picture
mettre au pas: to bring to heel, to bring into line, to rein in, to make (someone) conform
mettre au pilori: to pillory (to blame and criticize harshly, to condemn)
mettre au placard: to shelve, to kick into the long grass, to postpone indefinitely
mettre au point: to develop, to work out, to set up, to establish, to set on foot; to focus (a camera)
mettre au pot: to chip in, to contribute financially
mettre au rancart: to scrap (an object, project, etc.)
mettre au secret: to hold incommunicado, to put in incommunicado detention, to put in solitary confinement
mettre aux arrêts: to put under arrest, to arrest, to apprehend
mettre bas: to give birth, to drop; to whelp, to foal, to calve, to lamb, to kindle
mettre d'accord: to reconcile; to get someone to agree (with someone else); to settle on, to agree
mettre dans le même panier: to tar with the same brush, to paint with the same brush
mettre dans le même sac: to tar with the same brush, to paint with the same brush, to lump together
mettre dans sa poche: to get on someone's good side, to get someone to like oneself; to twist someone around one's little finger
mettre dans une case: to put someone in a box, to pigeonhole someone
mettre de côté: to put aside; to put aside, to save; ellipsis of mettre de l'argent de côté
mettre de l'eau dans son vin: to moderate one's impetuosity; to compromise
mettre de l'huile sur le feu: to add fuel to the fire
mettre dedans: to throw off, to mislead; to deceive
mettre des bâtons dans les roues: to put a spoke in (someone's) wheel, to throw a spanner in the works/throw a wrench in the works of
mettre devant la loi: to bring to justice
mettre du baume au cœur: to gladden (someone's) heart, to to warm the cockles of (someone's) heart, to do (someone's) heart good, to be heart-warming
mettre du beurre dans les épinards: to make a little extra money, to top up one's income in order to live a bit more comfortably
mettre en accusation: to bring charges against, to charge, to indict
mettre en application: to implement, to put into practice
mettre en avant: to highlight
mettre en balance: to weigh up; to compare the benefits and disadvantages
mettre en bière: to put in a coffin, to place into a coffin
mettre en bouteille: to bottle; to tease, to wind up, to josh
mettre en branle: to set in motion
mettre en cause: to suspect; to accuse, blame; synonym of remettre en cause
mettre en commun: to pool, to share
mettre en confiance: to gain someone's trust
mettre en danger: to put in danger, to endanger
mettre en demeure: to formally demand (that someone do or refrain from doing something), generally with a threat of litigation if the demand is not complied with; to send a formal demand letter (mise en demeure) to; to give notice of a legal obligation, time limit, etc., so that unawareness of it cannot be alleged; To demand that someone do or not do something; to order or insist vigorously or peremptorily.
mettre en disponibilité: to grant a worker a leave of absence, to put a worker on nonactive status
mettre en doute: to question, to call into question, to cast doubt upon, to doubt, to challenge, to second guess
mettre en examen: to indict