disillusionize
Americanverb (used with object)
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Etymology
Origin of disillusionize
First recorded in 1860–65; disillusion + -ize
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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.
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
Sorry to disillusionize you, but it is so.
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose
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
She was utterly disheartened, disillusionized at the thought.
From The Furnace of Gold by Marchand, J. N.
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
All of life's fiercer joys they had known to excess, which explained, perhaps, why they were tired and disillusionized long before they had attained their prime.
From Bought and Paid For From the Play of George Broadhurst by Broadhurst, George Howells
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
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 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
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
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.
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
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