Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To release from the power of a spell or enchantment; disenchant.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To break the power of (a spell); to release (a person) from the influence of a spell; to disenchant.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. rare To break the power of (a spell); to release (a person) from the influence of a spell; to disenchant.
WordNet 3.0
- v. release from a spell
Etymologies
- un- + spell (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But before his very real and unethereal, unspell-cast knife could strike, the little gnome delivered a punch line that caught the assassin square in his funny bone.”
“Hereupon the King let unbind the youth and sent him to jail; then he said to Abu Niyyah, "Wouldst thou go at once to my daughter and unspell her from the Jinni?”
“To unspell her brother, Mylla needs Alard's protection, but dares not trust him with the full truth, for fear of being accused as a witch herself.”
“Whoever in going over this bridge uttered a certain word, could unspell her if he would afterwards allow her to walk beside him the rest of the way over the bridge without speaking; but the difficulty was that nobody knew what the powerful word was. [”
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