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heurter.

to strike, hit

7 characters2 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

verb/œʁ.te/
  1. to strike, hit

  2. to clash, conflict with

  3. to crash, collide (together)

    reflexive
  4. to clash

    reflexive
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French heurter, from Old French hurter (“to ram into, strike, collide with”), from Frankish *hūrt (“a battering ram”), from Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną, *hreutaną (“to fall, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *krew- (“to fall, beat, smash, strike, break”). Cognate with Dutch horten (“to push against, strike”), Middle Low German hurten (“to run at, collide with”), Old Norse hrútr (“battering ram”).

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