Definition of Disenchant

1. Verb. Free from enchantment. "The performance is likely to disenchant Sue"

Exact synonyms: Disillusion
Generic synonyms: Disappoint, Let Down
Derivative terms: Disenchantment, Disillusion, Disillusionment
Antonyms: Enchant

Definition of Disenchant

1. v. t. To free from enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms or spells; to free from fascination or delusion.

Definition of Disenchant

1. Verb. to free someone from illusion, false belief or enchantment; to undeceive or disillusion ¹

2. Verb. to nullify a spell or magic enchantment ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Disenchant

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disenchant

disemvowel
disemvoweled
disemvoweling
disemvowelled
disemvowelling
disemvowels
disenable
disenabled
disenables
disenabling
disenamour
disenamoured
disenamouring
disenamours
disenchained
disenchant (current term)
disenchanted
disenchanter
disenchanters
disenchanting
disenchantingly
disenchantment
disenchantments
disenchants
disencharm
disencharmed
disencharming
disencharms
disencline
disenclose

Literary usage of Disenchant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dansk-norsk-engelsk Ordbog by Johannes Magnussen (1902)
"-ise ['c] charm, enchantment, fascination; have -n disenchant one. -nde [a] charming, enchanting; etc. -t [a] charmed, enchanted, etc. ..."

2. The Magazine of Poetry by Charles Wells Moulton (1891)
"... wondering if the And disenchant, only the arid desert leaving me, Where the swift swirl of streams had been, and mimicry Of waving woods ? ..."

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