se ressentir (rĕ-sān-), v.r., to feel the effects of, to perceive, to resent; to feel (disease, pain); to feel the effects of. Il se ressent encore de ses pertes; he still feels the effects of his losses. — d’une injure; to resent an injury.
resserrement (rĕ-sèr-mān), n.m., contraction, closing, tightening; restriction, oppression; (med.) stricture, contraction, costiveness.
resserrer (rĕ-sè-ré), v.a., to tie again; to tie tighter, to draw closer, to bind tighter, to confine, to compress, to contract, to straighten; to rivet; to put by, away again; to keep more closely; to restrain, to confine; (print.) to lock up again; (nav.) to take in sails again; (milit.) to close again. — une rivière dans son lit; to confine a river to its bed. Le froid resserre les pores; cold contracts the pores. — les liens de l’amitié; to draw closer the bonds of friendship.
se resserrer (rĕ-sè-ré), v.r., to contract, to be contracted; to be narrower, closer; to confine one’s self, to be compressed; to become tighter; to become colder (of the weather); to retrench one’s expenses; to be restricted in circulation (of money). Le temps se resserre; the weather is getting colder.
ressif (rè-sif), n.m. V. récif.
ressort (rĕ-sor), n.m., spring; elasticity; energy; activity, force, strength; means. À —; with a spring. Faire —; to fly back. Il n’agit que par —; he acts only at the instigation of others. Faire jouer tous ses —s; to use every effort.
ressort (rĕ-sor), n.m., extent of jurisdiction; department, province, line; (jur.) resort. En dernier —; (jur.) in the last resort; without appeal. Cela n’est pas de mon —; that is not within my province, or not in my line.
ressortir (rĕ-sor-), v.n., (pres. part. ressortant) to go out again; to be set off, to stand out (of a thing); to arise (from), to proceed (from), to result (from); to follow. Faire —; to bring forward, to show off, to set forth, to bring out in relief.
ressortir (rĕ-sor-), v.n., (pres. part. ressortissant), (jur.) to be under the jurisdiction of, to depend (on); to be dependent (on); to refer (to).
ressortissant, -e (rĕ-sor-), adj., (jur.) appealable (to), amenable (to), under the jurisdiction (of), dependent (on).