verb/de.fɛʁ/
to take down, take apart, dismantle, unpack (luggage); to undo, unfasten, unwind; to break, break up, unmake; to defeat, conquer; to come undone, fall apart, disintegrate
“se défaire d'une propriété” — to part with ones property
Inherited from Middle French desfaire, from Old French desfaire, from Early Medieval Latin disfacere. Synchronically dé- + faire.