assécher

to drain

verb ah-seh-SHEH Rare

Also means

to dry out

Usage Note

Assécher means to drain water from a marsh, lake, or wetland, or to dry something out completely. The related noun is assèchement (drainage, drying up). In environmental discourse it is commonly used to describe the draining of wetlands; assécher un marais (to drain a marsh) is a typical collocation.

Examples

"Les agriculteurs ont asséché le marais pour cultiver la terre."

Natural Translation

The farmers drained the marsh to farm the land.

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