crever

From Old French crever, inherited from Latin crepāre, present active infinitive of crepō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂-.

• IPA^(key): /kʁə.ve/

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crever

1. (transitive) to pop, burst

   crever un œil à quelqu'un ― to gouge someone's eye, to poke someone's eye out, to put someone's eye out

2. (intransitive) to have a puncture

   Mon pneu a à nouveau crevé. ― My tire went flat again.

3. (informal, intransitive) to snuff it, pop one's clogs (to die)

   crever de faim ― to be starving

   crever de soif ― to be parched

   crever de froid ― to be freezing

   crever de chaud ― to be boiling

   Synonym: mourir

4. (informal) to wear out, knacker

This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il crève rather than *il creve. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.

• “crever”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From French crever (“to die”).

crever

1. to die

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

From Latin crepāre, present active infinitive of crepō.

crever

1. to burst
2. to die

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-v, *-vs, *-vt are modified to f, s, t. This verb has a stressed present stem criev distinct from the unstressed stem crev. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• creveure

• “crever”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (crever)