dissipèrent

English translation: dissipated /scattered/

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French term or phrase:dissipèrent
English translation:dissipated /scattered/
Entered by: sktrans

16:40 Jan 9, 2006
French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Linguistics / expression
French term or phrase: dissipèrent
Mais lorsque ceux-ci se dissipèrent, elle avait disparu et avec elle ....
Esdena
United States
Local time: 08:05
dissipated /scattered/
Explanation:
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sktrans
Local time: 08:05
Grading comment
I think I like "scattered" better in this case
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1vanished
chaplin
4 +1dissipated /scattered/
sktrans
3 +1question mystère?
hirselina
4disbanded
swisstell
3 +1evaporated
Sandra Petch


Discussion entries: 6





  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
dissipèrent
question mystère?


Explanation:
A supposer qu'il s'agit de nuages: When the clouds lifted, however, he entered his most sustained creative phase.

books.guardian.co.uk/departments/ poetry/story/0,6000,136944,00.html

Mais beaucoup d'autres choses peuvent se dissiper!

hirselina
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in DutchDutch

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  chaplin: lifted
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
dissipèrent
disbanded


Explanation:
dissiperer = disband, dismantle, dissolve and more, depending very much on context


    La ROusse
swisstell
Italy
Local time: 14:05
Native speaker of: German
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
dissipèrent
evaporated


Explanation:
Depending on what is disappearing!

Sandra Petch
Local time: 14:05
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

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agree  RHELLER: one possibility
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59 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
dissipèrent
vanished


Explanation:
In French se dissipèrent

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Note added at 5 hrs 36 mins (2006-01-09 22:16:30 GMT)
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the silver threads evaporated comme suggéré plus haut and she had vanished

chaplin
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:05
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Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 3

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agree  RHELLER: one possibility
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10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
dissipated /scattered/


Explanation:
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sktrans
Local time: 08:05
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in FrenchFrench
Grading comment
I think I like "scattered" better in this case

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Michele Fauble
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