abaisser

Les marins terminèrent l'embarquement, levèrent l'ancre et abaissèrent les voiles.
The sailors finished the boarding, raised the anchor, and lowered the sails.
Les soldats abaissèrent le canon, en engageant le tourillon dans la rainure du support.
The soldiers lowered the cannon, fitting the trunnion into the slot of the mount.
Mais les jésuites n’abaissèrent pas le message évangélisateur à un niveau grossier et élémentaire dans l’idée de l’adapter ainsi à leurs auditeurs.
But the Jesuits did not in any way lower the message of the Gospel to a crude and elementary level, with the presumption of adapting it to their audience.
Les eaux se retirèrent de dessus la terre, allant et revenant, et elles s’abaissèrent au bout de cent cinquante jours. Au septième mois, le dix-septième jour du mois, l'arche s'arrêta sur les montagnes d'Ararat.
At the end of 150 days the waters had abated, and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
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