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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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
Sorry to disillusionize you, but it is so.
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose
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.
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
The usual amount of crimination and recrimination followed, but eventually the difficulties were compounded and Mascagni went back to his home a sadly disillusionized man.
From A Second Book of Operas by Krehbiel, Henry Edward
But he returned, the next morning, disillusionized and disappointed.
From The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt by Couperus, Louis
If she expected that from Bertram Chester, he disillusionized her.
From The Readjustment by Irwin, Will
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 Heller, Otto
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 as we awake and pay and depart, we turn and see again the disillusionizing legend:
From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa
This was sadly disillusionizing to Littleton, and the second experience was no less so.
From Unleavened Bread by Grant, Robert
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
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
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
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