blindé
See also: blinde
French
FWOTD – 10 October 2019
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /blɛ̃.de/
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Participle
blindé (feminine blindée, masculine plural blindés, feminine plural blindées)
- past participle of blinder
Adjective
blindé (feminine blindée, masculine plural blindés, feminine plural blindées)
- (military) armoured, armour-plated; reinforced
- hardened, immune
- (slang) pissed, hammered (drunk)
- (slang) rich, minting it
- (slang) overcrowded
- La ligne 13 est toujours blindée !
- Line 13 is always overcrowded!
Noun
blindé m (plural blindés)
- (military) armored vehicle in general
- 1967, Gaalyahu Cornfeld, War for Redemption and Peace/La Guerre pour la Redemption et la Paix, page 19:
- L'assaut fut lancé par des blindés et des paras.
- The attack was launched by the armoured vehicles and paratroopers.
Further reading
- “blindé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
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Adjective
blindé m
Synonyms
Spanish
Verb
blindé
- first-person singular preterite indicative of blindar