Usually means: Removal or breaking of ship's mast.
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  1. dismasting: Merriam-Webster
  2. dismasting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dismasting: Wiktionary
  4. Dismasting, dismasting: Dictionary.com
  5. Dismasting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Dismasting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. Dismasting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. dismasting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. dismasting: FreeDictionary.org
  10. dismasting: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dismasting)

▸ noun:  The act by which a ship is dismasted.

Similar:
dismastment, dismantling, dismounting, dismembering, disenchantment, knockdown, disbenchment, dislodging, undocking, disassembly, more...

Opposite:
remasting, rigging, re-rigging

Types:
jibe, gybe, broach, pitchpole, more...

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Similar:
dismastment, dismantling, dismounting, dismembering, disenchantment, knockdown, disbenchment, dislodging, undocking, disassembly, more...

Opposite:
remasting, rigging, re-rigging

Types:
jibe, gybe, broach, pitchpole, more...



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