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rev.: abbreviation of revue
revacciner: to revaccinate
revaloir: to get even (with)
revalorisation: revaluation
revaloriser: to revalue
revamper: revamp; redesign
revanchard: revengeful, vindictive, retaliatory; revanchist
revanche: revenge; vengeance; rematch
revancher: to take revenge
revanchisme: revanchism; vindictiveness (a policy or tendency of seeking revenge)
revanchiste: revanchist, vengeful
revascularisation: revascularization
revasculariser: to revascularize
revenant: a supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost; a person who returns after a long absence
revendeur: reseller
revendicateur: claimant
revendicatif: protest
revendication: airing of one's demand; claiming of one's identity; an instance of such a demand or claim
revendiquer: to demand; to claim, to lay claim to (ownership), to stake a claim to; to take on, assume (responsibility)
revendiqué: professed, asserted
revendre: resell, sell again
revenir: to come back, to return; to grow back; to recur, to be mentioned repeatedly; to come to mind, to be remembered; to recant, to go back on
revenir au même: to boil down to the same thing, to amount to the same thing
revenir de loin: to have had a close shave; to have come a long way; to have been to hell and back (to have made a spectacular recovery)
revenir en deuxième semaine: to get to the next round; to get a second chance, to get another chance
revenir sur sa parole: to go back on one's word
revenir sur ses pas: to double back, to backtrack, to retrace one's steps, to turn back
revenir à la charge: to resume combat after being defeated; to be insistent in achieving one's ends; to insist; to try again
revenir à ses moutons: to return to one's muttons, to get back to the topic at hand, to get back to the point
revenir à soi: to come round, to come to, to regain consciousness
revente: resale, act of reselling
revenu: revenue; income; tempering, drawing
revenue: a (physical) return; arrival; the action of game leaving the forest to graze
reverdir: to turn green again (of trees, plants, etc.)
reverdisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of reverdir
revernir: to revarnish (varnish again)
revernisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of revernir
revers: reverse side; downside, flipside; backhand; lapel
revers de fortune: reversal of fortune
revers de la médaille: the flipside (a necessary consequence), the downside
reversement: reversal, reversing
reverser: to repour (pour again); to pour back; to pay back, put back
reverter: to revert (especially on a wiki)
revigorant: tonic
revigorant: invigorating, roborative
revigoration: reinvigoration
revigorer: to reinvigorate
revirement: change of mind; reversal, drastic change; turnover
revisitant: revisiting
revisiter: to revisit, to visit again; to revisit, to redo, to restyle
revisser: to screw back or again
revitalisant: revitalizing
revitalisant: hair conditioner
revitalisation: revitalization
revitaliser: to revitalize
revival: revival
revivifier: to revivify, bring back to life; to revitalize, reinvigorate; to come back to life
revivre: to live again; to relive; to relive (experience again)
revoici: here (something is) again
revoilà: here (something is) again