Past tense of disillusion
regular verb
The past tense of disillusion is disillusioned. The past participle is also disillusioned.
Forms of disillusion
| Base form (V1) | disillusion /dɪs.ɪˈluːʒən/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | disillusioned /dɪs.ɪˈluːʒənd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | disillusioned /dɪs.ɪˈluːʒənd/ |
| Present participle | disillusioning |
| Third person singular | disillusions |
Disillusioned in a sentence
- He was disillusioned to find that even Lincoln had feet of clay.From the entry feet of clay
- All of which helps explain why so many Burgundy lovers have grown disillusioned with the region.2021 October 16, David Williams, “How to buy (relatively) affordable Burgundy wines”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry burgundy
- Aline was disillusioned and very dismissing of people not true to their word.2021, Lavona Fercho, Prime Ministers’ Wives: Those Who Endure. From the entry dismissing
- Disillusioned soldiers trudged into Rome, skeeving out the more refined nobles and priests with their presence.2012, Sara D'Emic, William James Vinson, Vinson's Christmas and Other Oddities, →ISBN. From the entry skeeve out
- Here, there and everywhere they search, chasing moonbeams and ending up disillusioned.2010, Raymond Arroyo Jr., Lead Us Not into Temptation. From the entry chase moonbeams
Meaning of disillusion
- verb To free or deprive of illusion; to disenchant.
- noun The act or process of disenchanting or freeing from a false belief or illusion.
- noun The state of being freed from a constructed or imposed illusion; the recognition of an underlying truth previously obscured by a false or controlled narrative.
Questions about the past tense of disillusion
- What is the past tense of disillusion?
- The past tense of disillusion is disillusioned.
- What is the past participle of disillusion?
- The past participle of disillusion is disillusioned.
- Is disillusion a regular or irregular verb?
- Disillusion is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: disillusion (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this page: “Past tense of disillusion.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/past-tense/disillusion. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.