revenir

revenir [ʀəvniʀ] vi → to come back;

(Culin);

faire revenir → to brown (= coûter);

revenir cher/à 100 euros (à qn) → to cost (sb) a lot/100 euros;

revenir à [+ études, projet] → to return to, go back to (= équivaloir à); to amount to;

revenir à qn [rumeur, nouvelle] → to get back to sb, reach sb's ears; [part, honneur] → to go to sb, be sb's; [souvenir, nom] → to come back to sb;

revenir de (fig) [+ maladie, étonnement]; to recover from;

revenir sur [+ question, sujet] → to go back over [+ engagement]; to go back on;

revenir à la charge → to return to the attack;

revenir à soi → to come round;

n'en pas revenir → I can't get over it;

revenir sur ses pas → to retrace one's steps;

cela revient à dire que/au même → it amounts to saying that/to the same thing;

revenir de loin (fig) → to have been at death's door