afoot

Anglais

Étymologie

Dérivé de foot (« pied »), avec le préfixe a-.

Adverbe

Nature	Forme
Positif	afoot \ʌˈfʊt\
Incomparable	—

afoot \ʌˈfʊt\ non comparable

1. À pied.
   • Exemple d’utilisation manquant. (Ajouter)
2. Debout
   • Exemple d’utilisation manquant. (Ajouter)
3. En cours.
   • It had just taken too long… and that meant that if it had been betrayed, the leaker had probably been one of the last people to discover what was afoot. He set that thought aside with a penciled question. — (Tom Clancy, Without Remorse, 1993.)

Synonymes

À pied (1)

• on foot

En cours (3)

• underway
• in progress

Dérivés

• the game is afoot

Anagrammes

• oofta