désaffourcher
French, verb/de.za.fuʁ.ʃe/
désaffourcher is spelled D-É-S-A-F-F-O-U-R-C-H-E-R (13 letters). Désaffourcher is a French verb meaning “to unmoor or heave up an anchor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Lever les ancres d’affourche”.
What does désaffourcher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to unmoor or heave up an anchor
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Lever les ancres d’affourche.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of désaffourcher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- désaffourchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- désaffourché participle past
- désaffourche first-person indicative present
- désaffourches indicative present second-person
- désaffourchons first-person indicative plural
- désaffourchez indicative plural present
- désaffourchent indicative plural present
- désaffourchais first-person imperfect indicative
- désaffourchait imperfect indicative singular
- désaffourchions first-person imperfect indicative
- désaffourchiez imperfect indicative plural
- désaffourchaient imperfect indicative plural
- désaffourchai first-person historic indicative
- désaffourchas historic indicative past
- désaffourcha historic indicative past
- désaffourchâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce désaffourcher?
- /de.za.fuʁ.ʃe/
- \de.za.fuʁ.ʃe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.