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Disenchant   Listen
verb
Disenchant  v. t.  (past & past part. disenchanted; pres. part. disenchanting)  
1.
To free from enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms or spells. "Haste to thy work; a noble stroke or two Ends all the charms, and disenchants the grove."
2.
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); as, the candidate was disenchanted by the low turnout at the rally.





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"Disenchant" Quotes from Famous Books



... understood. On the entrance of the cardinal, one would have said that an invisible magic thread had suddenly drawn all glances from the marble table to the gallery, from the southern to the western extremity of the hall. Nothing could disenchant the audience; all eyes remained fixed there, and the new-comers and their accursed names, and their faces, and their costumes, afforded a continual diversion. This was very distressing. With the ...
— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo


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