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virer.

to bear, veer (change direction slightly)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

verb/vi.ʁe/
  1. to bear, veer (change direction slightly)

    intransitive
    Virer à gauche.
  2. to turn into, become

    intransitive
    La situation va virer au drame.
  3. to transfer (money, from one account to another)

    transitive
  4. to get rid of, fire, shitcan

    colloquial · transitive
    Tu pourrais te faire virer pour ça.
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *virāre, probably from Latin vibrāre (in which case it is a doublet of vibrer) or possibly from an alteration of gȳrō. Compare Italian virare, Spanish virar. Or, possibly from Gaulish *viru (“to deviate, veer off”), itself derived from viros (“round, crooked”).

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