disillusionize
Americanverb (used with object)
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Etymology
Origin of disillusionize
First recorded in 1860–65; disillusion + -ize
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But I saw from the first moment that his eyes fell on my face that this made no difference to him, and that I must take other means to disillusionize him.
From Cynthia Wakeham's Money by Green, Anna Katharine
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
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
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 Murray, David Christie
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.
With this resolution he naturally thought that the greatest obstacle to success had been removed; but he was soon disillusionized.
From Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 by Various
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 Green, Anna Katharine
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
He came back from the war disillusionized, irreverent, impatient, and full of that surging fretfulness which fell upon all the land.
From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Hough, Emerson
I have seen many such instances, and from this early experience deeply sympathize with the disillusionized hero.
From My Memories of Eighty Years by Depew, Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell)
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
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
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
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 Duncan, Sara Jeannette
Even in the matter of disillusionizing a woman, they want to do that for themselves.
From The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel by Dawson, Coningsby
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