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🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

décapant

Pronunciation / Transliteration: deh-kah-pahn

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Remover/rɪˈmuː.vɚ/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #3400 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Le décapant a bien fonctionné sur les murs anciens."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person or thing that removes something.

    "The paint remover worked effectively on the old walls."
  2. 2

    A substance used to remove another substance.

    "She applied a nail polish remover to clean her nails."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin verb removere, composed of re- (back, away) and movere (to move). Entering Middle English via Old French removoir in the 14th century, it originally meant to displace or take away, later extending to cleaning agents and chemical substances that eliminate marks or substances.

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