undeceive
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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“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
And as that gentleman never attempted to undeceive her on this or any other subject, but merely listened with a placid smile, she believed that he always thought precisely as she did.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie
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
Her treatment of her main two characters, survivors Toby and Ren, and of God’s Gardeners, a sect dedicated to preserving the besieged natural world, is Atwood at her best: cool-headed, warm-hearted, funny, smart and undeceived.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2017
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
That was it, I thought: there is very little to object to or argue with in his essays; no rough edges that one can hang on to; they are so reasonable, so alert, so undeceived.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2010
“Bed,” said an undeceived Mrs. Weasley at once.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
“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
His lips parted, but no words would come, and he shivered at the thought of undeceiving her.
From In Honour's Cause A Tale of the Days of George the First by Lancelot Speed
Instead of undeceiving Father, 'Mother's brave boy,' of whom she was so proud, crawled under the bookcase, and in a moment the china head was in his father's hand.
From Chatterbox, 1906 by J. Erskine (John Erskine) Clarke
I was afraid that you were under that misconception, and I apologise for not undeceiving you sooner.
From Masterman and Son by W. J. (William James) Dawson
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