Disabuse

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  disabuse \dis`a*buse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disabused}; p. pr.
     & vb. n. {Disabusing}.] [Pref. dis- + abuse; cf. F.
     d['e]sabuser.]
     To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from
     fallacy or deception; to set right; -- often used with of;
     as, to disabuse one of his illusions.


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           To undeceive and disabuse the people.    --South.
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           If men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse
           themselves or artifice, hypocrisy, and superstition,
           they will consider this event as an era in their
           history.                                 --J. Adams.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  disabuse
       v : free somebody (from an erroneous belief)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "disabuse":
     amend, awaken, break the spell, burst the bubble, conflict,
     contention, correct, debunk, difference, disaccord, disappoint,
     disenchant, disillude, disillusion, disillusionize, dissension,
     dissent, dissidence, disunity, emend, enlighten, expose, free,
     illuminate, let down easy, let in on, liberate, prick the bubble,
     purge, put straight, rectify, redress, release, set right,
     set straight, show up, strife, tell the truth, unblindfold,
     uncharm, undeceive, unspell, wake up
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  DISABUSE, v.t.  The present your neighbor with another and better
  error than the one which he has deemed it advantageous to embrace.