Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unenthrall

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-en-thrall
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Synonym of unenslave.

Example Sentences

"[…] 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 […]"
"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."
"As I drove, I wrote a new to-do plan in my head. The first item was easy. Tell Tatiana about Max. The second—figure out how to unenthrall Jude—was where I got stuck. As in quicksand stuck."

Etymology

From un- + enthrall.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un-

Inflected Forms

unenthralls (present, singular) unenthralling (participle, present) unenthralled (participle, past) unenthralled (past)

Synonyms

disenthrall unenslave

Questions

What does unenthrall mean?: Synonym of unenslave.
Where does unenthrall come from?: From un- + enthrall.

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