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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
disenchant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective freed from enchantment
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Examples
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Sometimes you do have to reach out and make sure you're getting to what I call the disenchanted population that just feels it can't walk in any longer to whatever the public service happens to be because of previous experience.
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The author used the word disenchanted which makes me think that his following of the Left was not a rational and thoughtful position.
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I actually dug up the thesaurus, trying to find a better word than "disenchanted" - Luca Turin's apt description of Dune in The Guide.
Perfume Posse March 2010
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I actually dug up the thesaurus, trying to find a better word than "disenchanted" - Luca Turin's apt description of Dune in The Guide.
Perfume Posse March 2010
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"We were basically spies, spies for the store, spies for the company," recalls a disenchanted associate.
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Roy Hodgson says he will keep 'disenchanted' players at Liverpool
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Next election, those of us who are "disenchanted" with the Democrats aren't going to vote for a RepubliCANT.
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On the political side, not only is he looking to evangelicals, also, he could be looking to the large African-American mega churches, many of those minister whose became kind of disenchanted with him when he threw Reverend Wright under the bus.
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So, even as voters have become kind of disenchanted with both parties -- more likely to identify themselves as independents, more likely to vote for people on either side of the ballot when they're voting -- the parties have gone the other direction.
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Then as he was forced to make one compromise after another, the Europeans became kind of disenchanted with him over the course of the conference, and then in the middle of the conference Clemenceau was shot by an assassin.
Playing God: Seven Fateful Moments When Great Men Met to Change the World 1993
Prolagus commented on the word disenchanted
Six months on, the winter's gone
The disenchanted pony
Left the town with the circus boy
The circus boy got lonely
It's summer, and its sister song's
Been written for the lonely
The circus boy is feeling melancholy.
(My wandering days are over, by Belle and Sebastian)
September 5, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word disenchanted
Whichbe, which pony is it?
September 5, 2008
whichbe commented on the word disenchanted
Hahaha, I like how this word has the positive-negative double-edged meaning: being free from illusion, yet becoming depressed/disappointed.
September 5, 2008
yarb commented on the word disenchanted
Me too, whichbe: a cute word.
September 5, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word disenchanted
March 31, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word disenchanted
Ha!
April 1, 2011