vriller

French

Etymology

From vrille +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vʁi.je/

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Verb

vriller

1. (intransitive) to spiral; to spin
2. (transitive) to twist; to roll up; to wrap up

   Il vrille un cordon de soie. ― He is twisting a silk cord.

3. (transitive) to gimlet; to bore; to pierce
4. (transitive, figurative) to torment; to penetrate painfully

   un son qui me vrille le tympan ― a sound that tears through my eardrums

   • 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 2, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:

     Le son est si insupportable que la foule se vrille de douleur, avant de fuir s’abriter, en titubant. Les salauds !

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

5. (transitive) to stare piercingly
6. (colloquial) to break down

Conjugation

Conjugation of vriller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	vriller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	vrillant /vʁi.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		vrillé /vʁi.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vrille /vʁij/	vrilles /vʁij/	vrille /vʁij/	vrillons /vʁi.jɔ̃/	vrillez /vʁi.je/	vrillent /vʁij/
	imperfect	vrillais /vʁi.jɛ/	vrillais /vʁi.jɛ/	vrillait /vʁi.jɛ/	vrillions /vʁij.jɔ̃/	vrilliez /vʁij.je/	vrillaient /vʁi.jɛ/
	past historic2	vrillai /vʁi.je/	vrillas /vʁi.ja/	vrilla /vʁi.ja/	vrillâmes /vʁi.jam/	vrillâtes /vʁi.jat/	vrillèrent /vʁi.jɛʁ/
	future	vrillerai /vʁij.ʁe/	vrilleras /vʁij.ʁa/	vrillera /vʁij.ʁa/	vrillerons /vʁij.ʁɔ̃/	vrillerez /vʁij.ʁe/	vrilleront /vʁij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	vrillerais /vʁij.ʁɛ/	vrillerais /vʁij.ʁɛ/	vrillerait /vʁij.ʁɛ/	vrillerions /vʁi.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	vrilleriez /vʁi.jə.ʁje/	vrilleraient /vʁij.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	vrille /vʁij/	vrilles /vʁij/	vrille /vʁij/	vrillions /vʁij.jɔ̃/	vrilliez /vʁij.je/	vrillent /vʁij/
	imperfect2	vrillasse /vʁi.jas/	vrillasses /vʁi.jas/	vrillât /vʁi.ja/	vrillassions /vʁi.ja.sjɔ̃/	vrillassiez /vʁi.ja.sje/	vrillassent /vʁi.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vrille /vʁij/	—	vrillons /vʁi.jɔ̃/	vrillez /vʁi.je/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

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