disillusion
verb (used with object)
to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
disillusive
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a word derived from
disillusion.
Example Sentences
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By the following evening the consideration of this possibility, that Neigh’s position might furnish scope for such a disillusive discovery by herself as hers had afforded to Christopher, decoyed Ethelberta into a curious little scheme.
From The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy
