(v. t.) To free from enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms or spells; to free from fascination or delusion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ukip has provided a protest vote for disenchanted Tories , just as – up until the moment when David Cameron promised Nick Clegg a rose garden – the Lib Dems provided an alternative to Labour.
(2) Is Sisi’s UK visit going to fill my car with gas?’ A lot of people are increasingly disenchanted with the government, simply because it is failing to live up to its own illusions of grandeur.” Among the disenchanted are thousands of workers in the critical textiles sector who are striking over pay and conditions.
(3) The other, bigger worry, though, is among the disenchanted still living in deprived areas in Dundee, Edinburgh and pockets elsewhere in Lothian and Lanarkshire, but primarily in Glasgow.
(4) This struck a loud, clanging chord with a disenchanted British public – half of whom heard the speech – and 93% of those approved of its message, which when boiled down was just an appeal for greater individual effort to win the war.
(5) As one of the disenchanted Labour voters described by MacAskill, I have had many polemics put my way: the most persuasive have been George Galloway's "Just Say Naw" and a speech on the implications of Scottish independence for business by Rupert Soames, CEO of the Scottish firm Aggreko.
(6) He began as a conventional Hollywood liberal, but was soon disenchanted by the communists in the movie industry and what seemed to him the unduly leftist leadership of the American Federation of Labour.
(7) But those speculating this might be the start of a long-feared "strike" by disenchanted investors were somewhat let down: a regular government debt auction at the height of the political confusion was twice oversubscribed.
(8) That’s a very hard political sell, especially to a disenchanted public.
(9) Miszkowski, who sold his house to run for Labor in the 2007 federal election but became disenchanted with the party after Kevin Rudd forgot his name at a press conference, was also at the party, Guardian Australia has confirmed.
(10) Not content with picking up votes from disenchanted Conservatives, Farage advanced into Labour's terroritory on Friday by calling on large companies to sign up to a tough code of conduct to prevent them exploiting workers on zero-hours contracts.
(11) The recent "multi-party parliamentary election" – which was devoid of meaningful participation by opposition groups – and the formation of the new Syrian government by a member of the ruling Ba'ath party, have in particular disenchanted Iranian officials with Assad's strategy for a political solution.
(12) Thanks to the formation of the Coalition, Labour should be able to present itself as the only serious destination for voters disenchanted with the incumbent government.
(13) The disenchanted working class is the holy grail for vote-catchers, although no one actually seems to like its members.
(14) In 1950 he published a novel based on his Dartmouth visit, The Disenchanted, and later described the fiasco in his highly readable autobiography, Moving Pictures: Memories of a Hollywood Prince (1981).
(15) Zawahiri’s speech, delivered in Arabic, which is opaque to most Indians, is being seen as having far more to do with bolstering confidence in al-Qaida’s own ranks and fighting off the steep growth of the maverick Isis, than it is about recruiting new volunteers from Indian’s disenchanted Muslims.
(16) The front-page lead by Seumas Milne read: "A confidential strategic plan drawn up by Tony Blair's closest advisers warns that New Labour is not ready for government ... Disenchanted leftwing activists are likely to see it as confirmation that Blair has a near-presidential agenda."
(17) He concluded that many Greeks were disenchanted with their western allies and inclined to favour Russia.
(18) Narice Bernard, a 44-year-old businessman from East Lothian, who described himself as a disenchanted Labour supporter, was one of the campaign founders, and said he was frustrated by the calibre of the candidates , who were all associated with Labour’s defeat.
(19) More than half of Ukip's support in the European elections came from disenchanted Conservative voters, a poll commissioned by Lord Ashcroft has found .
(20) It is a prequel of sorts to the film, in that it fleshes out "why Calvero has nightmares, why he is so disenchanted with his career, with the public", she said.
Spell
Definition:
(n.) A spelk, or splinter.
(v. t.) To supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman.
(n.) The relief of one person by another in any piece of work or watching; also, a turn at work which is carried on by one person or gang relieving another; as, a spell at the pumps; a spell at the masthead.
(n.) The time during which one person or gang works until relieved; hence, any relatively short period of time, whether a few hours, days, or weeks.
(n.) One of two or more persons or gangs who work by spells.
(n.) A gratuitous helping forward of another's work; as, a logging spell.
(n.) A story; a tale.
(n.) A stanza, verse, or phrase supposed to be endowed with magical power; an incantation; hence, any charm.
(v. t.) To tell; to relate; to teach.
(v. t.) To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
(v. t.) To constitute; to measure.
(v. t.) To tell or name in their proper order letters of, as a word; to write or print in order the letters of, esp. the proper letters; to form, as words, by correct orthography.
(v. t.) To discover by characters or marks; to read with difficulty; -- usually with out; as, to spell out the sense of an author; to spell out a verse in the Bible.
(v. i.) To form words with letters, esp. with the proper letters, either orally or in writing.
(v. i.) To study by noting characters; to gain knowledge or learn the meaning of anything, by study.
Example Sentences:
(1) We outline a protocol for presenting the diagnosis of pseudoseizure with the goal of conveying to the patient the importance of knowing the nonepileptic nature of the spells and the need for psychiatric follow-up.
(2) The government did not spell out the need for private holders of bank debt to take any losses – known as haircuts – under its plans but many analysts believe that this position is untenable.
(3) The tasks which appeared to present the most difficulties for the patients were written spelling, pragmatic processing tasks like sentence disambiguation and proverb interpretation.
(4) John Carver witnessed signs of much-needed improvement from the visitors in a purposeful spell either side of the interval but it was not enough to prevent a fifth successive Premier League defeat.
(5) The lesson, spelled out by Oak Creek's mayor, Steve Saffidi, was that it shouldn't have taken a tragedy for Sikhs, or anyone else, to find acceptance.
(6) Likud warned: “Peres will divide Jerusalem.” Arab states feared that his dream of a borderless Middle East spelled Israeli economic colonialism by stealth.
(7) This could spell disaster for small farmers, says Million Belay, co-ordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa.
(8) In addition to expected differences in spelling and reading, probands obtained significantly (P less than or equal to .01) lower scores than controls on tests of other cognitive abilities.
(9) Despite fulfilling a boyhood wish to play for Milan when he returned to Italy, the striker admitted he erred in taking his career back to Serie A, having had a controversial spell at Internazionale before City recruited him for £17.5m in August 2010.
(10) Yesterday, John McDonnell spelled out the new Labour leadership’s public investment-driven economic alternative to austerity.
(11) Recognition memory was assessed by asking subjects to indicate which words from a longer list were presented during the spelling test.
(12) It was a spell in which the Dutch were in the ascendancy.
(13) When I wrote this week's public manager column pointing out that there are still too few women in senior public sector leadership roles, it didn't occur to me that I would have to spell out the reasons why it might be a good idea to have a few more women in top positions.
(14) Sigurdsson joined Reading as a youngster in 2005, and had loan spells at Crewe and Shrewsbury before breaking into the first team.
(15) Slow speech development occurred frequently in developmental and acquired spelling dysgraphic children.
(16) True, that comment was made early in Guardiola’s spell as Bayern manager and perhaps it was just a way of endearing himself to his new captain, but there is no doubt the former Barcelona manager adores Lahm.
(17) Since ALS occurs mostly in older age groups, this brings up the possibility that aging changes in the brain could play a causative role in the origin of such spells.
(18) A long spell of ultra-low interest rates has not driven a rise in inequality in the UK, the deputy governor of the Bank of England has said, rebuffing criticism that central bank policy had hurt some households.
(19) 3.05pm BST The Russian foreign ministry has again spelled out Sergei Lavrov's objections to threatening Syria with force if it doesn't comply with the chemical weapons agreement.
(20) However, when spelling ability was investigated, a heritability of 0.53 was obtained, increasing to 0.75 when intelligence was controlled.