DISENCHANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disenchant mean? 

• DISENCHANT (verb)
  The verb DISENCHANT has 1 sense:

1. free from enchantment

  Familiarity information: DISENCHANT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISENCHANT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they disenchant    ... he / she / it disenchants   
Past simple: disenchanted   
Past participle: disenchanted   
-ing form: disenchanting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Free from enchantment

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

disenchant; disillusion

Hypernyms (to "disenchant" is one way to...):

disappoint; let down (fail to meet the hopes or expectations of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The performance is likely to disenchant Sue

Antonym:

enchant (hold spellbound)

Derivation:

disenchantment (freeing from false belief or illusions)

 Context examples 

The next morning he came to the eldest and took him to a marble table, where there were three tablets, containing an account of the means by which the castle might be disenchanted.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

At last he dreamt one night that he found a beautiful purple flower, and that in the middle of it lay a costly pearl; and he dreamt that he plucked the flower, and went with it in his hand into the castle, and that everything he touched with it was disenchanted, and that there he found his Jorinda again.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)