acharné

See also: acharne

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French acharné.

Adjective

acharné (comparative more acharné, superlative most acharné)

1. (archaic) Relentlessly opposed; irreconcilable.
   • 1827, Theobald Wolfe Tone, Memoirs of Theobald Wolfe Tone, page 349:

     Aherne is acharné against him, and so is Sullivan: I am much cooler than either of them.

   • 1862, Supplementary Despatches, Correspondence, And Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur Ducke of Wellington, K.G.:

     He is acharné against Prussia, cannot bear her alliance with Austria, or tolerate the idea that Austria and Prussia should be able to defend the north of Germany.

   • 1982, Marion Ward, Forth, page 52:

     What though now they are acharné, yet brothers and sisters must at last be reconciled, and they will give each other the preference to French, Spaniards, etc.

   • 2012, E. S. Turner, Dear Old Blighty, →ISBN:

     There were no serious attempts to call it off and the warring powers remained acharné — to use a fashionable word of the day — until the end.

Anagrams

• arencha, Achnera, Arachne, Archean

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ʃaʁ.ne/

• Audio:

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Adjective

acharné (feminine acharnée, masculine plural acharnés, feminine plural acharnées)

1. fierce; relentless

   fumeur acharné ― chain smoker

Participle

acharné (feminine acharnée, masculine plural acharnés, feminine plural acharnées)

1. past participle of acharner

Further reading

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