disabuse
verb (used with object)
to free (a person) from deception or error.
have disabused
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present perfectof disabuse.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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His one term in the White House should have disabused him of this notion.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2023
But the floods have disabused him and many others here of the notion that small fixes, rather than fundamental changes, are enough.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2021
I have disabused myself of any thought of a normal future, but I allow myself a provisional optimism about the possibilities of what time I will be allowed.
From The New Yorker ● May 20, 2019
He could have disabused her, but it would have been cruel, and so on this subject, as ever, he remained silent.
From Tommy and Grizel by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Nothing but actual experiment would have disabused them.
From Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question by Edwin Lawrence Godkin
