relever

Inherited from Old French relever, from Latin relevāre, corresponding to re- +‎ lever.

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.l(ə).ve/

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relever

1. (transitive) to stand up (again); to stand, to right (a vehicle etc.)
2. (transitive) to help (someone) to their feet; to help up
   • Grace à lui, partout présent dans le carnage comme une providence, ceux qui tombaient étaient relevés, transportés dans la salle basse, et pansés. (Victor Hugo, Les Misérables XXIII)

     Thanks to him, ever-present in the carnage like a providence, those who fell were helped up, transported to the lower room, and bandaged.

3. (transitive) to pull up (socks etc.); to lift, raise (skirt etc.)
   • Alors elle se décida, et relevant sa robe, montra une forte jambe de vachère, mal serrée en un bas grossier. (Guy de Maupassant, ‘La Maison Tellier’)

     Then she made a decision, and lifting her dress, showed a strong, farm-girl's leg, in a badly-fitting coarse stocking.

4. (transitive) to put up (hair)
   • Elle avait simplement relevé ses cheveux et passé un peignoir de laine blanche. (Emile Zola, Germinal)

     She'd simply put her hair up and thrown on a white woollen dressing gown.

5. (transitive) to heighten, raise, lift (up); to increase
   • —Mon enfant, où sont les tiennes? dit-il en lui relevant la tête. (Honoré de Balzac, Une Fille d'Ève)

     ‘Where are yours, my child?’ he said, lifting his head.

6. (transitive) to restore, rebuild
7. (transitive) to season (food)
8. (transitive) to take down, note, copy out
9. (transitive) to react to, answer, respond to
10. (intransitive) to ride up (of clothes)
11. (reflexive) to get up again, get to one's feet
12. (transitive) to take up (a challenge)

This verb is conjugated like parler, except the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-, as in the third-person singular present indicative il relève and the third-person singular future indicative il relèvera.

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• “relever”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• révéler

relever

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of relevō

From Latin relevāre, present active infinitive of relevō, corresponding to re- +‎ lever.

relever

1. to lift again; to relift

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-v, *-vs, *-vt are modified to f, s, t. This verb has a stressed present stem reliev distinct from the unstressed stem relev. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• French: relever