1. To cause someone to lose enthusiasm, idealized admiration or a sense of enchantment.
2. To release someone or something from an enchantment in a story or account involving magic.
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Words that belong together
- disenchant a reader
- disenchant someone with
On the page
The repetitive explanation disenchanted the reader who had admired the opening’s mystery.
The experience disenchanted him with a profession he had imagined as wholly independent.
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Word forms
- Base
- disenchant
- Past tense
- disenchanted
- Past participle
- disenchanted
- Present participle
- disenchanting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- disenchant
- Present continuous
- am/is/are disenchanting
- Present perfect
- have/has disenchanted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been disenchanting
- Past
- disenchanted
- Past continuous
- was/were disenchanting
- Past perfect
- had disenchanted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been disenchanting
- Future
- will disenchant
- Future continuous
- will be disenchanting
- Future perfect
- will have disenchanted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been disenchanting
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: disenchant; disenchants; disenchanted; disenchanted; disenchanting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, narrative analysis, characterization, contrast. Disciplines: literary analysis, prose writing, advanced general English. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: disenchants.
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