démarrage, n.m., unmooring.
démarrer, v.a., to unmoor. — un cordage; to unbend a rope.
démarrer, v.n., to leave, to slip her moorings (of a ship); to move, to stir, to get away.
démasquer, v.a., to unmask; to show up. — une batterie; to unmask a battery.
se démasquer, v.r., to unmask, to take off one’s mask. Il s’est démasqué; he has pulled off his mask.
démâtage, n.m., (nav.) dismasting.
démâter, v.a., to dismast.
démâter, v.n., to lose her masts (of a ship).
démêlage, n.m., combing (of wool).
démêlé, n.m., strife, contest, contention, quarrel. Leur — est fini; their difference is at an end.