Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To free from a controlling force or influence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To free from thraldom; liberate from slavery, bondage, or servitude; free or rescue from anything that holds in subjection, whether physical or mental. Also spelled
disenthral .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To release from thralldom or slavery; to give freedom to; to disinthrall.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To free from
slavery orcaptivation .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Dowd quotes Lincoln during the Civil War saying: "We must 'disenthrall' ourselves, and then we shall save our country."
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Dowd quotes Lincoln during the Civil War saying: "We must 'disenthrall' ourselves, and then we shall save our country."
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“We must disenthrall ourselves of the idea,” he said, “that we differ only in our sexual directions and that all we want or need in life is to be free to seek the expression of our sexual desires.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Dylan Ratigan: This Thanksgiving, Occupy Yourself Dylan Ratigan 2011
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We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Dylan Ratigan: This Thanksgiving, Occupy Yourself Dylan Ratigan 2011
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We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Dylan Ratigan: This Thanksgiving, Occupy Yourself Dylan Ratigan 2011
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We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Dylan Ratigan: This Thanksgiving, Occupy Yourself Dylan Ratigan 2011
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We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Dylan Ratigan: This Thanksgiving, Occupy Yourself Dylan Ratigan 2011
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We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Dylan Ratigan: This Thanksgiving, Occupy Yourself Dylan Ratigan 2011
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We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Dylan Ratigan: This Thanksgiving, Occupy Yourself Dylan Ratigan 2011
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