acharné
See also: acharne
English
Adjective
acharné (comparative more acharné, superlative most acharné)
- (obsolete) Relentlessly opposed; irreconcilable.
- 1827, Theobald Wolfe Tone, Memoirs of Theobald Wolfe Tone, page 349:
- Aherne is acharné against him, and so is Sullivan: I am much cooler than either of them.
- 1862, Supplementary Despatches, Correspondence, And Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur Ducke of Wellington, K.G.:
- He is acharné against Prussia, cannot bear her alliance with Austria, or tolerate the idea that Austria and Prussia should be able to defend the north of Germany.
- 1982, Marion Ward, Forth, page 52:
- What though now they are acharné, yet brothers and sisters must at last be reconciled, and they will give each other the preference to French, Spaniards, etc.
- 2012, E. S. Turner, Dear Old Blighty, →ISBN:
- There were no serious attempts to call it off and the warring powers remained acharné - to use a fashionable word of the day — until the end.
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Anagrams
- Arachne, Archean, arencha
French
Pronunciation
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Adjective
acharné (feminine acharnée, masculine plural acharnés, feminine plural acharnées)
- fierce; relentless
- fumeur acharné ― chain smoker
Participle
acharné (feminine acharnée, masculine plural acharnés, feminine plural acharnées)
- past participle of acharner
Further reading
- “acharné”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.