Disenchanted vs Sour - What's the difference?
disenchanted | sour |
(disenchant)
To free from illusion, false belief or enchantment; to undeceive or disillusion.
To disappoint.
To remove a spell or magic enchantment from.
Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
* Francis Bacon
Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
Tasting or smelling rancid.
Peevish or bad-tempered.
* Shakespeare
(of soil) Excessively acidic and thus infertile.
(of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur.
Unfortunate or unfavorable.
* Shakespeare
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The sensation of a sour taste.
A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
(label) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
(label) To make sour.
(label) To become sour.
* Jonathan Swift
(label) To make disenchanted.
* Shakespeare
(label) To become disenchanted.
(label) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
As verbs the difference between disenchanted and sour
is that disenchanted is (disenchant) while sour is to make or become sour.As a adjective sour is
having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.As a noun sour is
the sensation of a sour taste or sour can be a sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.disenchanted
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete) sowrAdjective
(er)- All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite.
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- He was a scholar / Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, / But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.
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- sour adversity
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Noun
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- (Edmund Spenser)
Derived terms
* laundry sourVerb
- So the sun's heat, with different powers, / Ripens the grape, the liquor sours .
- To sour your happiness I must report, / The queen is dead.
- (Mortimer)