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bûcher

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Definition: (inf) - to slog away at, (UK) to swot up

Les étudiants doivent bûcher chaque soir. - Students need to slog away (at their homework) every night.

(Canada) to fell, cut down

Il faut bûcher ces arbres avant de construire le garage. - We have to fell these trees before building the garage.

Related: un bûcher - woodshed, pyre; une bûche - log, (slang) clod; un bûcheron - lumberjack, woodcutter; une bûchette - twig; bûcheur (inf or noun) - hard-worker, hard-working

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