se contracter

En même temps, les marchés intérieurs n'étaient pas en expansion mais au contraire se contractaient du fait que le capitalisme ruinait les paysans et les artisans, réduisant leur pouvoir d'achat.
At the same time, its internal markets were not expanding, but on the contrary contracting, because capitalism ruined the peasants and artisans and reduced their purchasing power.
J'avais des vertiges et mes muscles se contractaient douloureusement.
I was dizzy and my muscles contracted painfully.
Une fois de plus, c’est comme si tous mes muscles se contractaient.
Again it is as if all the muscles of my body were contracting.
Galvani a montré que les jambes d'une grenouille se contractaient quand il connectait le nerf lombaire à une source de courant électrique.
Galvani showed that a frog's legs twitched when he connected the lumbar nerve to a source of electrical current.
Ses muscles se contractaient de façon spasmodique.
Her muscles were contracting spasmodically.
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