Etymologies
- From the Latin adjective dēmēns, from the verb dēmentō. Re-popularized by the Harry Potter series. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Terry McAuliffe is the political equivalent of a dementor - he breathes on a candidate and they're doomed.”
“I guess they could still do that scene without Rufus Scrimgeour but since I've heard the first 13 minutes are in 3-D, they'll probably start with a bang and open with the dementor attack on the bridge.”
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“And I think that creepy robed dude is Voldemort, not a dementor.”
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“It was like coming face to face with a Harry Potter dementor.”
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“Another colleague told me he would asume the role of my “dementor.””
“Well, you can ask any dementor or he-who-must-not-be-named, and they'll tell you that dangerous is his middle name.”
““It was your soul the dementor would have taken …””
“Melissa: Ooooh, I'm a dementor, I run at the sight of a small yippy dog!”
“He would've made a hilariously hyper/scary dementor.”
“Your dementor has just destroyed the last remaining member of a pure-blood family as old as any - and see what that man chose to make of his life!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dementor’.
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JK Rowling's Magical Vocabulary
muggle, pensieve, boggart, animagus, grim, occlumency, polyjuice potion, howler, horcrux, deatheater, gryffindor, ravenclaw and 49 more...
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harry potter words
quidditch, apparate, disapparate, lumos, snitch, pensieve, dementor, azkaban, wingardium, leviosa, horcrux, bludger and 376 more...
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Fictional beasties
elf, gnome, dwarf, sprite, troll, fairy, nymph, imp, brownie, sasquatch, yeti, wookiee and 574 more...
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Harry Potter words
words, spells, charms, curses, artefacts and objects from the Harry Potter books
morsmordre, wingardium leviosa, centaur, alohomora, stupefy, expelliarmus, arithmancy, charm, hex, jinx, goblin, accio and 100 more...
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harry potter
oddment, tweak, lumos, flourish, filch, felix felicis, quaffle, bludger, snitch, voldemort, phoenix, slytherin and 61 more...
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