tarir

From Frankish *þarʀijan. Cognate to German dörren.

• IPA^(key): /ta.ʁiʁ/

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tarir

1. (transitive) to dry up
2. (transitive) to exhaust, use up
   • 1995, “Qu’est-ce qu’on attend ?”, in Paris sous les bombes, performed by Suprême NTM:

     De toute une jeunesse, vous avez brûlé les ailes / Brisé les rêves, tari la sève de l'espérance

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (intransitive) to talk non-stop (about something)
4. (reflexive) to dwindle, to dry up, to peter out

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

• tarissable
• tarissement

• “tarir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.