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
“It will disabuse his mind of the notion that he has any claim on me.”
From The Man from the Bitter Roots by Caroline Lockhart
If she intrudes on the privacy of her husband or lover, she will disabuse some one's confidence, if not careful of her conversation.
From Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Gustavus Hindman Miller
