démêler, v.a., to disentangle, to separate; to contest; to distinguish; to discern, to clear up, to penetrate, to fathom, to unravel, to extricate; to untwist, to unfold; to comb out. Avoir à — avec; to have to do with. Je ne veux rien avoir à — avec lui; I will have nothing to do with him. — le vrai d’avec le faux; to distinguish truth from falsehood.
se démêler, v.r., to be unraveled; to be disentangled, to extricate one’s self; to get clear of, to comb one’s hair.
démêloir, n.m., large tooth-comb.
démembrement, n.m., dismemberment; dismembered part.
démembrer, v.a., to tear limb from limb; to dismember, to disjoint.
déménagement (-naj-mān), n.m., household removal, removing, change of residence. Voiture de —; furniture van.
déménager, v.a., to remove one’s furniture.
déménager, v.n., to remove (to change one’s residence). Sa raison déménage; he is getting childish.
déménageur, n.m., furniture-remover.
démence, n.f., insanity, madness, lunacy, mental aberration. Tomber en —; to become insane.