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

Disabuse, dis-ab-ūz′, v.t. to undeceive: to set right.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

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

But he spoke with so much confidence and hope, that I dreaded undeceiving him.

From Daisy Burns (Volume 2) by Julia Kavanagh

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

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

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

From Here and Hereafter by Barry Pain