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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Sorry to disillusionize you, but it is so.
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose
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
He wondered how he could disillusionize her, shatter the dream which he could see had become a part of her life.
From 'Me--Smith' by Hoskins, Gayle Porter
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
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
In fact, I was glad to be held up to ridicule, and, thus disillusionized, see my fault in its true colors.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various
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
I have been deceived and disillusionized so completely that I have grown utterly callous, and nothing now can move me either to sorrow or joy.'
From Madame Midas by Hume, Fergus
We entered Rome after a long, wet, cold carriage journey that would have disillusionized a Dore.
From Memories of Hawthorne by Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne
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
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
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
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.
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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