disabuse
verb (used with object)
to free (a person) from deception or error.
will disabuse
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future tenseof disabuse.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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But he decides “to seek the truth” for her sake: “I will disabuse her or avenge her.”
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 17, 2015
If it does nothing else, the summit will disabuse Obama's peer group of these myths and elevate the issue to the presidential level.
From Newsweek ● Apr. 9, 2010
Either of these books will disabuse a reader of such notions.
From Time Magazine Archive
He does, and nothing I can say will disabuse his mind of the idea.
From Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa by H.C. Adams
To put a lock upon your fiance'e's neck and arm, foretells that you are distrustful of her fidelity, but future episodes will disabuse your mind of doubt.
From Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Gustavus Hindman Miller
