Multiple Entries: reculer reculons Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary © 2005 Oxford University Press:reculer /ʀ(ə)kyle/ (conjugate⇒) - transitive verb
- to move back [object];
- (in car) to reverse GB, to back up;
- to put off [event, decision];
to put back [date].
- intransitive verb
- [person] to move back;
to stand back;
[driver, car] to reverse; - [army] to pull or draw back;
- [forest] to be gradually disappearing;
[river] to go down;
[sea] to recede; - [currency, exports] to fall;
[doctrine] to decline;
faire ~ le chômage to reduce unemployment; - to back down;
ne ~ devant rien to stop at nothing.
- se reculer reflexive verb (+ v être) gen to move back;
to stand back.
Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary © 2005 Oxford University Press:reculons: à reculons /aʀ(ə)kylɔ̃/ phrase aller à ~ to go backward(s).Subscribe to the Oxford Concise or Unabridged dictionary for more translations, meanings and examples. ' reculons' found in these entries: reculer: WordReference English-French Dictionary © 2010| Principal Translations |
| reculer ⇒ | | v | shrink back |
| reculer | (un rendez-vous) | vtr | delay | | | | Additional Translations: |
| reculer | (figuré) | | shrink back (figurative) |
| reculer | | v | stand back |
| reculer | | v | recoil (flinch) |
| reculer | | v | subside |
| reculer | | v | move back |
| reculer | | v | go back |
| reculer | | v | flinch (draw back) |
| reculer | | v | draw away |
| reculer | | v | back away |
| reculer | | v | back down |
| reculer | | v | back off |
| reculer | | v | back out |
| reculer | | v | back (go backwards) |
| reculer | | v | recede |
| reculer | | v | recoil |
| reculer | | v | draw back |
| reculer | | v | curb |
| reculer | | vi | decline (slow down) |
| reculer | (aller vers l'arrière) | vi | retreat (step back) |
| reculer | | vtr | reverse (move backwards) | | Compound Forms/Formes composées |
| en train de reculer | | backing up |
| faire reculer les limites du possible | v | push the envelope |
| ne reculer devant rien | | stick at (stick at nothing) |
| reculer d'un bond | | spring back |
| reculer de | v | back out of |
| reculer le siège d'une voiture | v | slide back a car seat |
| reculer une table | v | set back a table | | Report an error. |
| Compound Forms/Formes composées |
| marcher à reculons (à rebours) | vi | walk backwards | | Report an error. | Forums WR : discussions dont le titre comprend le mot(s) "reculons".
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