undeceive

American  

[uhn-di-seev] / ˌʌn dɪˈsiv /

verb (used with object)

undeceived, undeceiving

1. to free from deception, fallacy, or mistake.

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undeceive British  

/ ˌʌndɪˈsiːv /

verb

1. (tr) to reveal the truth to (someone previously misled or deceived); enlighten

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Other Word Forms

• undeceiver
  noun
• undeceivable
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of undeceive

First recorded in 1590–1600; un- ² + deceive

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

undeceive undeceived undeceiving

“I am laboring industriously to undeceive the people,” one optimistic officer wrote from Arkansas.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

It announced that British Broadcasting Corporation would begin to send out "straight news" in seven languages to undeceive misinformed mankind.

From Time Magazine Archive

Howard agrees but, as headwaiter to girl, he dares not undeceive her.

From Time Magazine Archive

During the meal she was quiet and cool: but I could not undeceive her then.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

He was anxious, however, to see more of his captors' proceedings, and therefore accompanied them without any effort to undeceive them as to who he was.

From The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

But this is what surely gives Jhabvala’s work its rare gleam: the undeceived clarity of the eternal outsider, immersed yet apart.

From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2019

Joan Fontaine in Hitchcock’s Suspicion has the girlish, coltish beauty that co-existed with the almost spinsterly style of the schoolteacher, and a smidgen of undeceived worldliness.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2018

The first is why this worldly, witty, undeceived man spent forty years, off and on, conducting séances with the spirit world through the medium of a cheap Ouija board.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 6, 2015

To the undeceived reader, there are other hints of fictional cross-dressing.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 18, 2013

We lived well, our days were mostly sunny, and I know that my parents were stoically undeceived by the objectively equivocal, contingent nature of the advantaged life they gave me and my siblings.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

“The old man paused and then continued, ‘If you will unreservedly confide to me the particulars of your tale, I perhaps may be of use in undeceiving them.

From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

The task of undeceiving the unhappy dupe was taken by his Majesty Louis Philippe, who having, at an evening reception at Neuilly, exposed his attempted corruption, coolly turned his back and refused to receive him.

From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever

Short as was the time allowed, it had sufficed for Rebecca to compose a form of words which should not wound her conscience by direct falsehood, while not undeceiving her hearers as to her rank.

From The Panchronicon by Harold Steele MacKaye

The moment a proclamation was issued, undeceiving them, he found himself left with about thirty desperadoes only.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph

He even went to the royal Audiencia, who delayed undeceiving him for many days and after many meetings.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

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