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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of disenchant.

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  • adjective freed from enchantment

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Examples

  • Sometimes you do have to reach out and make sure you're getting to what I call the disenchanted population that just feels it can't walk in any longer to whatever the public service happens to be because of previous experience.

    Oral History Interview with Evelyn Schmidt, February 9, 1999. Interview K-0137. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1999

  • The author used the word disenchanted which makes me think that his following of the Left was not a rational and thoughtful position.

    The American Spectator 2010

  • I actually dug up the thesaurus, trying to find a better word than "disenchanted" - Luca Turin's apt description of Dune in The Guide.

    Perfume Posse March 2010

  • I actually dug up the thesaurus, trying to find a better word than "disenchanted" - Luca Turin's apt description of Dune in The Guide.

    Perfume Posse March 2010

  • "We were basically spies, spies for the store, spies for the company," recalls a disenchanted associate.

    Wake-Up Wal-Mart Blog 2009

  • Roy Hodgson says he will keep 'disenchanted' players at Liverpool

    Liverpool reject £35m Chelsea bid for Fernando Torres 2011

  • Next election, those of us who are "disenchanted" with the Democrats aren't going to vote for a RepubliCANT.

    House Dem to switch to Republican Party 2009

  • On the political side, not only is he looking to evangelicals, also, he could be looking to the large African-American mega churches, many of those minister whose became kind of disenchanted with him when he threw Reverend Wright under the bus.

    CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2008 2008

  • So, even as voters have become kind of disenchanted with both parties -- more likely to identify themselves as independents, more likely to vote for people on either side of the ballot when they're voting -- the parties have gone the other direction.

    CNN Transcript May 27, 2001 2001

  • Then as he was forced to make one compromise after another, the Europeans became kind of disenchanted with him over the course of the conference, and then in the middle of the conference Clemenceau was shot by an assassin.

    Playing God: Seven Fateful Moments When Great Men Met to Change the World 1993

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  • Six months on, the winter's gone

    The disenchanted pony

    Left the town with the circus boy

    The circus boy got lonely

    It's summer, and its sister song's

    Been written for the lonely

    The circus boy is feeling melancholy.

    (My wandering days are over, by Belle and Sebastian)

    September 5, 2008

  • Whichbe, which pony is it?

    September 5, 2008

  • Hahaha, I like how this word has the positive-negative double-edged meaning: being free from illusion, yet becoming depressed/disappointed.

    September 5, 2008

  • Me too, whichbe: a cute word.

    September 5, 2008

  • March 31, 2011

  • Ha!

    April 1, 2011