acharné, -e, adj., fleshed; rabid; infuriated; implacable; desperate; obstinate; intense. Un combat —; a desperate fight. Une haine —e; an implacable hatred.

acharnement, n.m., tenacity; rancor, blind fury; stubbornness, ill-nature; obstinacy, desperation. Avec —; unmercifully. C’est de l’—; this is rank fury.

acharner, v.a., to flesh; to rouse, to madden; to set on; to embitter, to envenom.

s’acharner, v.r., to be intent, bent, set upon; to set one’s heart upon; to persist in; to be infuriated, implacable. Il s’acharne à l’étude; his heart is set upon study.

achars, n.m.pl., Indian pickles.

achat, n.m., purchase, purchasing, buying; bargain. Faire des —s; to purchase.

ache, n.f., (bot.) smallage.

achée, n.f., worms, gentles, bait.

acheminement (ash-mi-n-mān), n.m., step; preparatory measure, means, way, dispatch.

acheminer (ash-mi-né), v.a., to forward, to send on.