renversement, n.m., reversing, overturning, throwing down, throwing over, overthrowing; turning upside down; confusion, disorder; turning, alienation (of the brain); subversion, destruction; (surg.) retroversion, prolapse; (mus.) inversion, revert, reversing; (arith.) inversion; (nav.) ☉transshipment, V. transbordement. — d’un état; overthrow of a state. — des lois; subversion of the laws. — de la paupière; (med.) eversion of the eyelid.
renverser, v.a., to reverse, to turn upside-down, to turn topsy-turvy; to throw down, to upset, to tumble down, to overthrow, to overturn; to spill; to turn (the brain); to disorder, to confuse; to destroy, to ruin; to astound, to stupefy, to overwhelm; to transpose; (milit.) to put to flight, to rout, to put to the rout; to invert; (surg.) to retrovert; (nav.) ☉to transship, V. transborder. — à coups de canon; to batter down. — la table; to upset the table. — un bataillon; to break, to overthrow, a battalion. — un état; to overthrow a state. Ceci lui renversera l’esprit; this will turn his brain. — l’encre; to spill the ink, to knock the ink over. — la vapeur; (rail.) to reverse the engine. — une voiture; to upset a carriage.
se renverser, v.r., to fall down, to turn upside down, to upset, to be upset, to be thrown down, to overset, to be overset, to capsize; to be capsized, to be spilt; to throw one’s self back, to fall back, to lie on one’s back; (milit.) to be thrown into disorder, to be thrown back; (surg.) to be retroverted.
renverseur, n.m., overthrower; subverter; inverter, destroyer; transposer.
renvi, n.m., revy, additional stake.
renvidage, n.m., winding up, winding (in spinning).
renvier, v.n., to revy, to lay above the stakes, (at cards).
renvoi, n.m., sending back, returning, return, sending away, dismissal, discharge; referring, sending; (jur.) adjournment; caret, reference (in books, writings); reflection, reverberation; (jur.) reference to another judge. pl., (med.) rising of the stomach. De —; returnable. — du son; reverberation of sound. Chevaux de —; return horses. — de troupes; dismissal of troops. — de la cause à huitaine; adjournment of the case for a week.
renvoyer, v.a., to send again; to send back again, to return; to send away, to dismiss; to discharge; to refer; to put off, to postpone, to adjourn, to delay; to drive back; to throw back; to reflect (light or heat); to repeat, to reverberate (sound). — un ministre; to dismiss a minister. — un domestique; to discharge a servant. — une femme; to repudiate a wife. On a renvoyé l’affaire à huitaine; the case has been adjourned for a week. — la balle à quelqu’un; to give one as good as he sends, to return the compliment. — un accusé; to acquit a prisoner. — un plaideur de sa demande; to nonsuit a plaintiff. — le lecteur à une note; to refer the reader to a note.