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[ dis-uh-byooz ] / ˌdɪs əˈbyuz / SEE SYNONYMS FOR disabuse ON THESAURUS.COM
verb (used with object), dis·a·bused, dis·a·bus·ing.to free (a person) from deception or error. Origin of disabuseFrom the French word désabuser, dating back to 1605–15. See dis-1, abuse OTHER WORDS FROM disabusedis·a·bus·al, nounWords nearby disabusedisable, disabled, disabled list, disablement benefit, disablism, disabuse, disaccharidase, disaccharide, disaccord, disaccredit, disaccustom Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for disabuseWe must disabuse ourselves of this perhaps half-ironic but still telling aphorism. There Are Only Atheists in Fox Holes|Michael Carson|October 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST As a former agent himself, Horrigan hopes to disabuse renters of the notion that brokers are mercenary con artists. From a Broken Lease, a Dream NYC Home|Lizzie Crocker|September 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST He said he wanted to disabuse anyone who thinks the administration has “a bunch of other rabbits in our hat” to ward off default. Obama at the Shutdown Press Conference: ‘Lord Knows I’m Tired of It’|Eleanor Clift|October 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST No amount of sweet-sounding oratory is going to disabuse him of his hard-driving partisan agenda. What Obama Should Say on Monday|Paul Begala|January 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Either way, if you ever thought punditry was anything close to a science, this should be enough to disabuse you. RIP Platinum Coin: May 14th, 2010-January 12th, 2013|Megan McArdle|January 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST These circumstances did not disabuse Donald of his original idea of its being a penny-wedding. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2|Alexander Leighton He could not disabuse his mind of the insinuating presence of the two together. Four Weird Tales|Algernon Blackwood You must first disabuse your mind of the American girl as you find her in books. The Affair at the Inn|Kate Douglas Wiggin It is almost impossible at present to disabuse the public mind of Europe and of the North of this shallow prejudice. The Alternative: A Separate Nationality, or The Africanization of the South|William Henry Holcombe Meanwhile it is the duty of parents to disabuse their female offspring as to the existence of a right to be amused. The Unpopular Review Vol. I|Various
British Dictionary definitions for disabuse
verb(tr usually foll by of) to rid (oneself, another person, etc) of a mistaken or misguided idea; set right Derived forms of disabusedisabusal, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to disabusedebunk, disillusion, enlighten, rectify, expose, free, rid, liberate, correct, disenchant |