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

Etymology

Origin of undeceive

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

I did not undeceive him, but said it had.

From The Rulers of the Mediterranean by Davis, Richard Harding

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

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

"And you would not hate me also for rudely undeceiving you?"

From Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lynch, Lawrence L.

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 Robertson, James Alexander

There was no use in undeceiving them as to my real rank and station.

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James

I tried to deceive you, with the intention of undeceiving you in the end.

From Here and Hereafter by Pain, Barry