rapprocher
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verb
to reapproach, to approach again
to come closer tophysically, as in distance
to bringsomething or someone) closer to (physically, as in distance
to bring closerto unite
to get closerto
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- À vingt pas de la maison, le four, coiffé de son petit toit de planches, faisait une tache sombre; la porte du foyer ne fermait pas exactement et laissait passer une raie de lumière rouge; la lisière noire du bois se rapprochait un peu dans la nuit.Twenty steps from the house, the oven, with its small roof of planks, made a dark spot; the door of the fireplace did not close exactly and let pass a line of red light; the black edge of the wood came a little closer at night.B1Maria Chapdelaine
- Aussitôt elle se rapprocha de lui.Immediately she got closer to him.B2Les Trois Mousquetaires
- Mais le voici qui se rapproche encore!But here he is still getting closer!B2Le Chevalier de Mornac
- Aucun navigateur n'avait encore osé de son temps, si rapproché de Colomb, pénétrer aussi loin que lui dans l'intérieur du Nouveau-Monde.No navigator had yet dared to enter the interior of the New World, so close to Columbus.C1Histoire du Canada, tome I
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