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

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disillusionize disillusionized disillusionizing

Sorry to disillusionize you, but it is so.

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

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 Dorothy Whitehill

At any rate, he would have been unspeakably cruel to disillusionize her.

From The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure by Rex Ellingwood Beach

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 William Chandler Bagley

"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

Mortimer had read much about confidence men, and half expected that his self-imposed acquaintance would try to borrow money, but he was disillusionized presently.

From Thoroughbreds by William Alexander Fraser

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 Armando Palacio Vald?s

The experiment in social education having abruptly come to its end, the disillusionized reformer threw himself headlong into the diversions and dissipations of the capital city.

From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller

Then he should go from Perro Creek, poorer in purse, poorer in spirit, poorer in faith, sore, and bitterly disillusionized.

From The Iron Furrow by Henry A. Botkin

You ought to have disillusionized the girl carefully and delicately.

From Judith Trachtenberg A Novel by Karl Emil Franzos

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

Heaven knows what disillusionizing thing Jack had said to him that day!...

From The Fortieth Door by Mary Hastings Bradley

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

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 Montague Glass