Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To awaken from a trance or from deep sleep; arouse from a reverie; free from a delusion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To awaken from a trance or an enchantment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
awaken from atrance ordeep sleep ; toarouse from areverie .
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Examples
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Again, on the other hand, many obvious improbabilities will be endured, as belonging to the ground-work of the story rather than to the drama itself, in the first scenes, which would disturb or disentrance us from all illusion in the acme of our excitement; as for instance, Lear's division of his kingdom, and the banishment of Cordelia.
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Again, on the other hand, many obvious improbabilities will be endured, as belonging to the groundwork of the story rather than to the drama itself, in the first scenes, which would disturb or disentrance us from all illusion in the acme of our excitement; as for instance, Lear’s division of his kingdom, and the banishment of Cordelia.
Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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