disillusionize

American  

[dis-i-loo-zhuh-nahyz] / ˌdɪs ɪˈlu ʒəˌnaɪz /

especially British, disillusionise

verb (used with object)

disillusionized, disillusionizing

1. to disillusion.

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Other Word Forms

• disillusionist
  noun
• disillusionizer
  noun

Etymology

Origin of disillusionize

First recorded in 1860–65; disillusion + -ize

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

disillusionize disillusionized disillusionizing

If he was sincere––and the longer she talked with him, the more convinced she was that this was the case––then she did not wish to disillusionize him.

From The Wall Street Girl by Wolfe, George Ellis

"I should doubt whether her cure will be as prompt as you think, it seemed to me that her ideas were somewhat fixed, and it will need a good deal of failure to disillusionize her."

From A Girl of the Commune by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

We tend, I think, to look upon the advice that we give to young people as something that shall disillusionize them.

From Craftsmanship in Teaching by Bagley, William Chandler

She pictured Martha's shocked surprise at the very idea of staying in bed just for the fun of it, but she did not disillusionize Phyllis.

From Phyllis A Twin by Whitehill, Dorothy

After awhile, when I saw that the time had arrived to disillusionize these women, I dismissed my headache and got up to have a frank talk with them.

From Final Proof or the Value of Evidence by Ottolengui, R.

She had thought he would be disillusionized, when he found he was thrown over for a German tutor, who could sing.

From Richard Vandermarck by Harris, Miriam Coles

And it's true that Baldwin Tanner behaved as he shouldn't; but he was a weak creature and she'd disillusionized him so and made him so miserable that he just got reckless.

From Tante by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

All that she needed to become disillusionized was to perceive the vessel carefully warping up to the quay and discharging a few barrels and boxes.

From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Palacio Vald?s, Armando

In fact, I was glad to be held up to ridicule, and, thus disillusionized, see my fault in its true colors.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various

Thinking of it made me suddenly aware that I had become a man, with a man's aims, and a disillusionized view of life.

From Romance by Conrad, Joseph

He predicted a good sale for the book, and succeeded in disillusionizing Hawthorne from the notions he had acquired from the failure of "Fanshawe."

From The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Stearns, Frank Preston

At the end of three disillusionizing weeks Abe Potash and Morris Perlmutter sat in the show-room of their place of business.

From Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures by Glass, Montague

Likewise the night life of San Francisco, of which in times past I had read so much, was disillusionizing, because it wasn't visible to the naked eye.

From Roughing it De Luxe by McCutcheon, John T.

This was sadly disillusionizing to Littleton, and the second experience was no less so.

From Unleavened Bread by Grant, Robert

I omit the intermediate steps of the process of disillusionizing and sobering he has gone through.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von