disabuse
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French désabuser, or dis- + abuse.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK, General American) IPA(key): /dɪsəˈbjuːz/
Verb[edit]
disabuse (third-person singular simple present disabuses, present participle disabusing, simple past and past participle disabused)
- (transitive) to free (someone) of a misconception or misapprehension; to unveil a falsehood held by (someone)
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 201:
- I had been too profoundly disabused of life's dearest illusions ever again to allow of their sweet engrossment.
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus, published 2010, page 140:
- If we had any hopes or illusions about the National Party before they came into office, we were disabused of them quickly.
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Translations[edit]
free of a misconception
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