unenthrall
unenthrall verb: synonym of unenslave.
Verb
unenthrall (third-person singular simple present unenthralls, present participle unenthralling, simple past and past participle unenthralled)
- Synonym of unenslave.
- […] though sometimes I felt I was. They dispelled my nonage, they showed me how liberating the play of lighter desire can be, how exquisitely and surely it can enthrall and unenthrall spirit and mind […]1935, Louis Marlow [Louis Wilkinson], Fool's Quarter Day, Faber and Faber, page 30
- In that first version I was trying to unenthrall myself from Foucault and Deleuze—because of the semanalyse people, turning all that into a kind of American graffiti, I think. I had spoken of sati, under Lata Mani's influence. But I had not yet written of Bhubaneswari's message.2010, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “In response: looking back, looking forward”, in Can the Subaltern Speak? Reflections on the History of an Idea, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 227
- Synonyms:
- disenthrall, unenslave
Synonyms of unenthrall
Forms of unenthrall
| third-person singular present | unenthralls |
|---|---|
| present participle | unenthralling |
| past participle | unenthralled |
| past | unenthralled |
Origin of unenthrall
From un- + enthrall.
Questions about unenthrall
- What does unenthrall mean?
- Unenthrall means synonym of unenslave.
- What part of speech is unenthrall?
- Unenthrall is a verb.
- What is the past tense of unenthrall?
- The past tense of unenthrall is unenthralled.
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