No. 4,350 in French

forage

Drilling or boring, typically to extract resources.

In a sentence

Le forage pétrolier dans cette région a augmenté récemment.
Oil drilling in this region has increased recently.
Here, 'forage' means 'drilling', referring to the process of extracting petroleum from the ground.
Ils ont utilisé un équipement sophistiqué pour le forage du tunnel.
They used sophisticated equipment for the drilling of the tunnel.
In this sentence, 'forage' refers to the act of drilling or boring into ground or rock to construct a tunnel.
Le forage a permis de découvrir une ancienne source d'eau.
The drilling allowed us to discover an ancient water source.
Here, 'forage' again refers to 'drilling', specifically as a technique to uncover buried resources, such as water.

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