verb/ʁə.mɛtʁ/
to put back, replace; to put (clothing etc.) back on; to restart (machine etc.); to hand over, tender, hand in, deliver (to someone); to put off, postpone (until)
“Quant à l'évêque, avoir vu la guillotine fut pour lui un choc, et il fut longtemps à s’en remettre.” — As for the bishop, seeing the guillotine had been a shock for him, and it took him a long time to get over it.
Inherited from Old French remetre, inherited from Latin remittō. By surface analysis, re- + mettre.