renverser
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verb
to turn over, turn upside down
to knock over, knock to the ground
to run over
to spille.g. a liquid
to invertchange the positions of words in a sentence
Used in the library
- Toutes les chaises de la maison étaient occupées; Esdras, Tit'Bé et Eutrope Gagnon occupaient le banc; le père Chapdelaine était assis sur une chaise renversée; Télesphore et Alma-Rose, du perron, surveillaient la boucane qui montait toujours.All the chairs of the house were occupied; Ezra, Tit'Bé, and Eutrope Gagnon occupied the bench; Father Chapdelaine was sitting on an overturned chair; Telesphorus and Alma-Rose, of the perron, were watching the scapegoat that was still going up.B1Maria Chapdelaine
- Le Sauvage enserra de ses deux mains le cou du pauvre chevalier qu'il renversa sous lui.With his two hands, the Sauvage put on the neck of the poor knight, whom he overturned under him.B2Le Chevalier de Mornac
- Un autre coup, qui lui entama le front, le renversa presque en même temps tout sanglant et presque évanoui.Another blow, which struck his forehead, overturned him almost at the same time all bloody and almost fainting.B2Les Trois Mousquetaires
- Ces bourgades avaient-elles été renversées par la guerre ou transportées ailleurs par suite des vicissitudes de la chasse ou de la pêche?Had these villages been overthrown by the war or transported elsewhere as a result of the vicissitudes of hunting or fishing?C1Histoire du Canada, tome I
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