Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To free from illusion or false belief; undeceive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To free from enchantment; deliver from the power of charms or spells, or of an enchanter; free from fascination or delusion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To free from enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms or spells.
- transitive verb to free (a person) from fascination or delusion; to destroy the false hopes or overoptimistic expectations of (a person); to disillusion; -- used with people or events as the agent (subject).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
free someone fromillusion ,false belief orenchantment ; toundeceive ordisillusion - verb to
nullify aspell ormagic enchantment
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb free from enchantment
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It must also be stated that we must be very suspicious of the urge to "disenchant"
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“Residuum” is the magic dust that you can disenchant 4e magic items into.
Mike Mearls Strangles Realism In D&D Like It’s An Unruly Hooker « Geek Related 2009
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Their brethren, realizing the value of antiquity to esprit de corps, do not bother to disenchant them.
Apologetics 2009
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Their brethren, realizing the value of antiquity to esprit de corps, do not bother to disenchant them.
Bizarre 2009
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The add-on called Enchantrix by Morganna can help you figure out what you might get if you disenchant an item.
Steelblossom's guide to making money in WoW nathreee 2008
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Another rule to remember is that weapons usually disenchant into essences while armor usually becomes dust.
Steelblossom's guide to making money in WoW nathreee 2008
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Barack will disenchant his own supporters if he succombs to the wants and wishes of Hillary's supporters.
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You might even want to start buying cheap weapons, disenchant them and sell the results.
Steelblossom's guide to making money in WoW nathreee 2008
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He will disenchant his base constituency, including me.
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A salutary leveling of Voice in writing, rooted deep in the currents of postmetaphysical philosophy — or otherwise the deconstruction of the transcendental Word in all its various mystifications — can rightly disenchant the file of the signifier without going so far as to ignore the phonemic enchainment linked by letters but not coterminous with those scripted increments.
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