déchaîner, v.a., to unchain; to let loose, to turn loose, to exasperate.
se déchaîner, v.r., to break loose, to free one’s self from one’s chains, to burst upon; to run riot; to inveigh.
déchalement, n.m., lying dry; ebbing, far out.
déchaler, v.a.n., to leave bare or dry; to lie dry; to ebb far out.
déchanter, v.n., to change one’s tone, to lower one’s pretensions, to sing another tune. Je le ferai —; I’ll make him sing small.
déchaperonné, -e, adj., (of a wall) dismantled of its coping.
déchaperonner, v.a., to unhood, to uncope.
décharge, n.f., unloading, unlading; lumber-room; discharge; release; relief; exoneration; (jur.) defense; shower of blows; (mil.) volley, round. Pièce de —; lumber-room. Table de —; dinner-wagon. Témoin à —; witness for the defense. Entendre les témoins à charge et à —; to hear witnesses for and against.
déchargement, n.m., unloading, unlading.
décharger, v.a., to unload, to unlade, to empty, to vent, to disburden, to lighten; to discharge; to release, to set free; to exonerate; (hort.) to prime; to dismiss. — sa conscience; to clear one’s conscience. — son cœur à quelqu’un; to open one’s heart to any one. — son fusil sur quelqu’un; to discharge one’s musket at any one. — sa bile, sa colère, sur quelqu’un; to vent one’s bile, to wreak one’s anger, upon any one. — un accusé; to exculpate, to discharge an accused person. Il a été déchargé de toute accusation; he was entirely exculpated.