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1 échoué
aground, high and dry -
2 échouer
échouer [e∫we]➭ TABLE 11. intransitive verba. ( = ne pas réussir) [personne, tentative, plan] to failb. ( = aboutir) to end up2. reflexive verb* * *eʃwe
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verbe transitif Nautisme to beach [bateau]
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échouer à verbe transitif indirect to fail [examen, épreuve]
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verbe intransitif1) ( ne pas réussir) [personne, tentative] to failfaire échouer — to cause [something] to fail [négociations, projet]
2) ( se retrouver) [personne, dossier] to end up3) [bateau] to run aground
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* * *eʃwe1. vi1) (ne pas réussir) to fail2) [navire] to run aground, [baleine] to be beached, [débris] to be washed up3) (= arriver par hasard, se retrouver) [dans un endroit] to end up2. vt[bateau] to ground* * *échouer verb table: aimerC vi1 ( ne pas réussir) [personne, tentative] to fail; échouer dans une tentative/devant un obstacle to fail in an attempt/in the face of an obstacle; échouer face à un adversaire to lose to an opponent; notre équipe avait échoué en demi-finale our team had lost in the semifinal; faire échouer to cause [sth] to fail [négociations, projet, proposition];2 ( se retrouver) [personne] to end up; [objet, dossier] to end up;3 Naut [bateau] to run aground; un pétrolier échoué sur les récifs an oil tanker stranded on the reef.D s'échouer vpr [bateau] to run aground (sur on); [baleine] to be beached; la baleine s'est échouée sur la plage the whale was stranded on the beach.[eʃwe] verbe intransitiffaire échouer to foil, to frustrate2. (familier) [finir] to end ou to wind up————————[eʃwe] verbe transitif[volontairement] to beach————————s'échouer verbe pronominal intransitifquelques caisses échouées sur la plage a few boxes washed up ou stranded on the beach -
3 ensablement
ɑ̃sɒbləmɑ̃ nm1) [port, canal] silting up2) [embarcation] stranding* * *ensablement nm (de port, terres) silting-up; ( de véhicule) sinking in the sand; ( de bateau) stranding (on a sandbank).[ɑ̃sabləmɑ̃] nom masculin[d'un bateau] running aground[d'un tuyau] choking (up) with sand[d'une route] sanding over[d'un port] silting up -
4 échouage
échouage nm1 ( processus) beaching;2 ( situation) state of being beached;3 ( endroit) chercher un échouage pour l'hiver to look for a suitable place to beach the boat for the winter.[eʃwaʒ] nom masculin,échouement [eʃumɑ̃] nom masculin -
5 s'échouer
eʃwe vpr/vi[navire] to run aground -
6 ensabler (s')
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7 Erika
Name of the Italian-managed Maltese-registered tanker, on charter to the French oil company Total-Fina-Elf, that ran aground and sank off the Brittany coast in 1999, causing one of France's largest oil spills and environmental disasters. At least 150,000 birds died as a result of the spillage of heavy oil, that affected beaches from the Charente to the Finistère.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Erika
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8 échouer, s’
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