disabused

dis·a·buse

D0248300 (dĭs′ə-byo͞oz′)tr.v. dis·a·bused, dis·a·bus·ing, dis·a·bus·es To free from a falsehood or misconception: "It's up to you whether you want to disabuse your students of their fantasy that A's are guaranteed" (Rachel Kadish).

[French désabuser : dés-, dis- + abuser, to delude (from Old French, to misuse; see abuse).]

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disabused - freed of a mistaken or misguided notion; "some people are still not disabused of the old idea that the universe revolves around the Earth"undeceiveddisenchanted - freed from enchantment

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adj freed of a mistaken or misguided notion

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