(cooking) to water down a sauce / (figuratively, derogatory) to pad one's text (to increase the size of a text by adding undesirable filler); to drag things out; to waffle

to be lazy

to criticise, to blame, to accuse [+ à (object)]

(informal, figuratively) Used as a jocular explanation of why someone is talking nonsense: they must be under the influence of drugs.

to do the laundry, to do the washing

to work the cash register, to be on the cash desk, to be the cashier / to hold the purse strings

(dated, transitive with à) to proposition someone, to make sexual advances to someone, to offer someone to have sex with one

to pout

(figuratively) to bridge the gap, to ensure the transition (from one situation to the next)

a surname transferred from the common noun