disabuse
[dis-uh-byooz]
- to free (a person) from deception or error.
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Origin of disabuse
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Contemporary Examples
We must disabuse ourselves of this perhaps half-ironic but still telling aphorism.
As a former agent himself, Horrigan hopes to disabuse renters of the notion that brokers are mercenary con artists.
He said he wanted to disabuse anyone who thinks the administration has “a bunch of other rabbits in our hat” to ward off default.
No amount of sweet-sounding oratory is going to disabuse him of his hard-driving partisan agenda.
You'd be surprised how often my fellow British Jews are required to disabuse U.S. friends of such delusions.
Historical Examples
To disabuse the world of some of these, has been my object in the present little volume.
Nuts and NutcrackersCharles James Lever
But Joseph will write to her in the meanwhile and disabuse her of this.
A Rent In A CloudCharles James Lever
It was the first effort of the interpreter to disabuse me of this notion.
To Whom This May ComeEdward Bellamy
It was utterly vain to attempt to disabuse her; it would only have compromised all of us.
TancredBenjamin Disraeli
It will disabuse his mind of the notion that he has any claim on me.
The Man from the Bitter RootsCaroline Lockhart
disabuse
- (tr usually foll by of) to rid (oneself, another person, etc) of a mistaken or misguided idea; set right
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Word Origin and History for disabuse
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