empoisser, v.a. V. poisser.
empoissonnement (-poâ-so-n-mān), n.m., stocking with fish.
empoissonner, v.a., to stock with fish.
emporté, -e, adj., fiery, passionate, hasty, hot, hot-headed; runaway; unmanageable.
emportement, n.m., transport; passion, fit of passion; hastiness; outburst; anger, rage; frenzy, violence.
emporte-pièce, n.m., punch (instrument); puncher; cutting-out machine; fly-press; sarcastic person; virulent satirist. C’est une réponse à l’—; it is a very cutting answer.
emporter, v.a., to carry away, to take away, to sweep away, to convey away; to remove (stains); to carry off (kill); to entail, to involve; to gain, to obtain; to blow off; to burn. Le vent a emporté mon chapeau; the wind has blown my hat off. Cette maladie l’a emporté; that illness carried him off. — de haute lutte; to carry with a high hand. L’— sur; to prevail; to have the advantage, to get the better of, to carry the day; to preponderate, to overcome, to outweigh, to surpass. L’amour l’emporte souvent sur la raison; love often gets the better of reason. Il l’a emporté sur tous ses concurrents; he triumphed over all his competitors. Cette considération l’emporte sur toutes les autres; that consideration outweighs every other. — ses cliques et ses claques; to pack up bag and baggage. — la pièce; to strike home.
s’emporter, v.r., to fly into a passion; to declaim, to inveigh against; to rail at; to run away (of horses). — contre le vice; to declaim against vice. — comme une soupe au lait; to take fire like gunpowder.
empotage, n.m., potting.
empoter, v.a., (hort.) to inclose in pots, to pot.