The processing of the verb voir in Les verbes français (Dubois & Dubois-Charlier 1997) is compared with that of large dictionaries of the French language, with the lexicological approach developed by J. Picoche and with the analyses and proposals put forward primarily by J.-J. Franckel and D. Lebaud in the theoretical framework of A. Culioli. From this comparison, it appears that with a semantic classification based on syntactic and distributional properties of the language usage, (senses rise out which the intuition has no direct access to) meanings which are not intuitively accessible come to light. That allows the construal of a semantic identity of the verb founded on different theoretical prerequisites.