释义 |
disabusedis‧a‧buse /ˌdɪsəˈbjuːz/ verb [transitive] formal disabuseOrigin: 1600-1700 dis- + ➔ ABUSE2 ‘to deceive’ (15-18 centuries) VERB TABLEdisabuse |
Present | I, you, we, they | disabuse | | he, she, it | disabuses | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | disabused | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have disabused | | he, she, it | has disabused | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had disabused | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will disabuse | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have disabused |
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Present | I | am disabusing | | he, she, it | is disabusing | | you, we, they | are disabusing | Past | I, he, she, it | was disabusing | | you, we, they | were disabusing | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been disabusing | | he, she, it | has been disabusing | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been disabusing | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be disabusing | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been disabusing |
- However, I do not believe that I will be able to disabuse him of his beliefs.
- It may also disabuse ministers of the belief that people notice indirect taxes less than direct ones.
- Successive experience to the contrary failed to disabuse them of this illusion.
- The government will do nothing to disabuse the public of this impression you can be sure.
to persuade someone that what they believe is not truedisabuse somebody of something I tried to disabuse him of that notion. |