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
Now, late events might have disabused foreign cabinets on this score: a quieter beast than he has shown himself need not be wished for.
From Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Charles James Lever
Surely, such a reception ought to have disabused the unfortunate man.
From The Clique of Gold by Émile Gaboriau
