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rechargement
noun, masculine
recharge
to recharge (add more electricity to); to reload (e.g. a gun)
to recharge one's batteries (to recover mentally and/or physically by taking a break or engaging in a relaxing activity)
recherche
noun, feminine
research; search
to search for, seek, to look for; to search again, to look for again
recherché
adjective
sought-after; marked by careful or laborious effort; evidencing careful reflection or studious research; refined, sophisticated, exquisite; unnatural, affected, contrived, overwrought, labored, tortured (as an obvious result of excessive effort or attempts at refinement)
to display reluctance
rechigné
adjective
objectionable
rechristianisation
noun, feminine
re-Christianization
rechute
noun, feminine
relapse, recurrence
to relapse, to recur
recipé
noun, masculine
alternative spelling of récipé
reclassement
noun, masculine
reclassification; regrading; redeployment
to reclassify
reclassification
noun, feminine
synonym of reclassement
to reclose (close again)
to withdraw into a place, so as to have no contact with others
reclus
adjective
reclusive
reclus
noun, masculine
recluse
recluse brune
noun, feminine
brown recluse (Loxosceles reclusa)
to fix one's hair (again, or after being disturbed)
recoin
noun, masculine
hidden and out-of-way corner, recess, nook; deepest corner, inner sanctum
recollement
noun, masculine
reattachment
to restick, to stick back, reattach
To peg back (equalise)
to patch things up, to repair a relationship
to recolonize
recombinaison
noun, feminine
recombination
recombinant
adjective
recombinant
To recombine
recommandable
adjective
commendable, respectable, worthy
commendably, worthily
recommandataire
noun, masculine/feminine
referrer
recommandation
noun, feminine
recommendation
recommendatory
to recommend, to endorse
recommandé
adjective
recommended; registered
recommandé
noun, masculine
ellipsis of courrier recommandé: recorded delivery, registered mail
recommencement
noun, masculine
restart
to restart, start over, start again
recommençant
noun, masculine
returnee (person who left a religion, then returned)
post-1990 spelling of recomparaître
to reappear before a judge or government official
to reconstruct, reconstitute
recomposition
noun, feminine
recomposition; process by which a compound word which has undergone phonetic changes is reformed anew from its constituents; the result of that process
to recount (count again)
to reconcentrate
reconcentré
adjective
reconcentrated
to reconceptualize
To recondemn; To resentence
to recondense
to recondition
reconductible
adjective
renewable
reconduction
noun, feminine
renewal
to renew; to accompany (somebody back somewhere); to take (back)
reconduite
noun, feminine
escorting
reconfiguration
noun, feminine
reconfiguration, reorganization
to reconfigure
reconfinement
noun, masculine
reconfinement
to reconfine