se raccourcir, v.r., to shorten; to grow, or become, shorter; to contract one’s self; to shrink.
raccourcir, v.n., to shorten; to become shorter; to shrink, to contract.
raccourcissement (-sis-mān), n.m., shortening, contraction, curtailment, abridgment; shrinking; foreshortening.
raccours, n.m., shrinking.
raccoutrement, n.m., mending (of clothes).
raccoutrer, v.a., to mend, to sew up.
se raccoutumer, v.r., to reaccustom one’s self (to), to get used (to) again.
raccroc (ra-kro), n.m., chance, lucky hit; (at billiards) fluke. Coup de —; lucky stroke, fluke.
raccrocher, v.a., to hook again; to hang up again; to recover, to get again, to get hold of, to pick up. Raccrochez ce tableau; hang up this picture again. — son argent; to recover one’s money. Si je pouvais — cela! if I could only bring that off! Raccroché à Londres; (of persons) picked up in London.
se raccrocher, v.r., to cling; to adhere; to retrieve one’s losses, to recover one’s self; to catch, or snatch, at. Se — à une chose; to cling to anything.