disabuse
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From dis- + abuse.[1][2] Compare French désabuser.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK, General American) IPA(key): /dɪsəˈbjuːz/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -uːz
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: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: 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.
- 2017 June 29, Marina Hyde, “Not Brooklyn's finest: who's to blame for Beckham Jr's photo debacle?”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- If anyone thought the auction house was about art and not commerce, they should finally be disabused of that notion by the prospect of an international tour for a photo of Posh Spice fishing, captioned: “my brother cruz was the best but i didn’t catch anything – annoying but still fun”.
- 2024 July 11, Theodore Schleifer, Jacob Bernstein, Reid J. Epstein, “How Biden Lost George Clooney and Hollywood”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
- Mr. Katzenberg is now taking his commensurate lumps, particularly because contributors feel he helped disabuse donors’ concerns about Mr. Biden’s physical state.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]free of a misconception
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References
[edit]- ^ “disabuse, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- ^ “disabuse, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
