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French word débrouiller comes from French dé-, French brouiller

dé- (French)

Used to make antonyms (similar to English prefixes un-, dis-).

brouiller (French)

(reflexive) to become blurred, get mixed up. (reflexive, meteorology) to cloud over. (reflexive, ~ avec) to fall out. To blur. To jam (a transmission), to scramble (a message). To mix up, confuse. To scramble (an egg). To set at odds, put (someone) off (something).

débrouiller (French)

(pronominal) to get by; to manage; to bootstrap. To disentangle (threads).

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