disillusionize
Americanverb (used with object)
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Etymology
Origin of disillusionize
First recorded in 1860–65; disillusion + -ize
Example Sentences
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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.
Sorry to disillusionize you, but it is so.
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose
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
At any rate, he would have been unspeakably cruel to disillusionize her.
From The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
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
At the moment, being somewhat disillusionized in both respects, I decided to tear myself away from this twofold preoccupation and to leave my uncle to his inventions and Bérangère to her sullen mood.
From The Three Eyes by Leblanc, Maurice
Such, my friend, were the results of my first two girlish passions; I was entirely disillusionized concerning the pretty love romances that girls dream of at boarding school.
From Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 by Kock, Charles Paul de
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 Fraser, William Alexander
The object of the game was to see who could tell the biggest lie without being found out; and the one rule required that the victims be disillusionized before they left the table.
From When Patty Went to College by Williams, C. D. (Charles D.)
Read that MSS. she left here, and get disillusionized in short order.
From A Black Adonis by Porter, Linn Boyd
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
I think you're forgetting that I've had a disillusionizing experience in this sort of thing which you were spared.
From The Bent Twig by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
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.
Heaven knows what disillusionizing thing Jack had said to him that day!...
From The Fortieth Door by Bradley, Mary Hastings
It has been a disillusionizing experience, I can't deny it; but passons for the Aspreys and their kind.
From Tante by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas
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