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

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Etymology

Origin of disillusionize

First recorded in 1860–65; disillusion + -ize

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Example Sentences

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disillusionize disillusionized disillusionizing

"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 G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

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 R. Ottolengui

Of course it helped to disillusionize him, and he began even to see that Gertrude was not as beautiful as he had once believed her to be.

From Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray

Sorry to disillusionize you, but it is so.

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Ambrose Bierce

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 George Ellis Wolfe

On the instant Frank drew in his breath and Edgar expected to see him drop his hand from the reins and sink back disillusionized and indifferent.

From Cynthia Wakeham's Money by Anna Katharine Green

Read that MSS. she left here, and get disillusionized in short order.

From A Black Adonis by Linn Boyd Porter

You ought to have disillusionized the girl carefully and delicately.

From Judith Trachtenberg A Novel by Karl Emil Franzos

I have seen many such instances, and from this early experience deeply sympathize with the disillusionized hero.

From My Memories of Eighty Years by Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell) Depew

He came with his prospectors, all the party somewhat disillusionized as to all that fabled gold upon the Indian reservation.

From The Furnace of Gold by J. N. Marchand

And yet I realize the awfulness and vastness of these great living creatures far more than in the belittling and disillusionizing daylight.

From Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various

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 Frank Preston Stearns

When his earlier intention reoccurred to him in the train, he dismissed it with the thought that what he had seen would be more effective, more disillusionizing, than what he had merely heard.

From A Daughter of To-Day by Sara Jeannette Duncan

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

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

Even in the matter of disillusionizing a woman, they want to do that for themselves.

From The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel by Coningsby Dawson

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