Would tighten (fr. Serraient)
Translation into English
Les griffes du monstre lui serraient les mains.
The monster's claws clenched her hands.
Example taken from data source: CCMatrix_v1 Si eux ne se serraient pas les coudes, qui le ferrait?
If they didn’t band together, who would?
Example taken from data source: CCMatrix_v1 Quelles langues serraient les plus utiles?
What languages will become the most useful?
Example taken from data source: CCMatrix_v1 Les évêques s’y serraient opposés.
Because the Bishops would oppose it.
Example taken from data source: CCMatrix_v1 Ils frissonnaient des mêmes frissons; leurs coeurs, dans une espèce de fraternité poignante, se serraient aux mêmes angoisses.
They shuddered with the same shudder; their hearts in a kind of poignant friendship, were wrung with the same anguish.
Example taken from data source: Books_v1 Tout le monde se serraient dans les bras.
Everyone would be up in arms.
Example taken from data source: CCMatrix_v1 Cela comporte un refoulement des régions de conjunction, et de ce fait pendant cette opération on doit desserrer les mâchoires hydrauliques 16 antérieures, de sorte à permettre un avancement approprié des tronçons de rail qu'elles serraient.
This step involves an upsetting of the joint regions, and therefore during this operation the front hydraulic jaws 16 should be released, thus allowing a suitable advancement of the formerly clasped rail sections.
Example taken from data source: EuroPat_v3 Synonyms
- maintenaient
- tenaient
- compressaient