Definition of "dementors" [dementors]

• Plural form of dementor. (noun)

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• "Harry was crafted as an orphan because Rowling had just lost her mother when she began writing; the shadowy, pleasure-sapping entities known as "dementors" that first turned up in book three were a literary embodiment of the author's struggles with depression in her late twenties."
• "There was a simple reason for Sirius's complete absence from Harry's life until then - Sirius had been in Azkaban, the terrifying wizard jail guarded by creatures called dementors, sightless, soul-sucking fiends who had come to search for Sirius at Hogwarts when he had escaped."
• "All I have to do is call the dementors once we get out of the Willow."