perçoir, n.m., piercer (to tap casks).
perçu, -e, part., collected.
percussion, n.f., percussion, reverberation.
percutant, -e, adj., (artil.) percussion. Fusée —; percussion-fuse.
percuter, v.a., to percuss.
perdable, adj., losable.
perdant, -e, n. and adj., loser; losing.
perdition, n.f., waste, wreck, ruin; perdition, destruction. S’en aller en —; to go to ruin, to go to wrack and ruin. Flotte de —; accursed fleet. En —; (of ships) sinking, in great distress.
perdre, v.a., to lose, to be deprived of, to be out of pocket; to waste, to ruin, to be the ruin of, to undo, to corrupt, to debauch; to spoil; (nav.) to carry away; (nav.) to cast away; (tech.) to discharge (water). — la santé; to lose one’s health. — la raison; to lose one’s reason, mind. — haleine; to lose one’s breath. — la tête, la carte; to lose one’s wits, one’s head. — une gageure; to lose a wager. — quelqu’un de réputation; to defame any one. — l’occasion; to lose the opportunity. — une chose de vue; to lose sight of a thing. Ses débauches le perdront; his debauchery will be the ruin of him. L’inondation a perdu les blés; the floods have spoilt the crops. Y — son latin; not to be able to make it out.
se perdre, v.r., to be lost, to lose one’s self, to lose one’s way, to stray; to be cast away; to have a rambling way of arguing; to be nonplused; to disappear, to fall into disuse; to ruin one’s self; to go to ruin, to go to wrack and ruin; to spoil, to be spoilt; to get bewildered; to be at a loss; (nav.) to be carried away; (nav.) to be cast away; to hole one’s own ball (at billiards). Je m’y perds; I am getting bewildered; I cannot make head or tail of it. Se — d’honneur; to disgrace one’s self.