☉abonnir, v.n., s’abonnir, v.r., to mend, to grow better.
☉abonnissement (-nis-mān), n.m., (fam.), improvement, amelioration.
abord, n.m., landing; arrival; access; admittance, approach; attack, onset. Avoir l’— facile; to be easy of access. De prime —; at first sight.
à bord, adv., aboard, on board.
d’abord, adv., first, at first, at first sight. Tout d’abord, au premier abord, dès l’abord; at first, from the very first. Dès l’abord, j’ai senti que je devais ... I felt, from the very first, that I ought ... or was to ...
abordable, adj., accessible, accostable, of easy access; approachable.
abordage, n.m., (nav.) landing; boarding; fouling. Aller or sauter à l’—; to board a ship, grapple.
aborder, v.n., to arrive at; to land.
aborder, v.a., to come near, to come to, to come up with; to board, to run foul of (a ship); to accost; to broach, handle (a subject). — un vaisseau ennemi; to board an enemy’s ship. — par accident; to run foul of. Il m’a abordé dans la rue; he accosted me in the street.
s’aborder, v.r., to run foul of each other; to come up with one another.