Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To free from a falsehood or misconception.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To free from mistake; undeceive; relieve from fallacy or deception; set right: as, it is our duty to disabuse ourselves of false notions and prejudices.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right; -- often used with of.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
free (someone)of amisconception ormisapprehension ; tounveil afalsehood held by (somebody).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb free somebody (from an erroneous belief)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This talent to disabuse is in large part the obverse of Coward’s capacity for shrewd self-assessment.
Faster, Faster 2007
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This talent to disabuse is in large part the obverse of Coward’s capacity for shrewd self-assessment.
Faster, Faster 2007
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Denver citizens made a trip to Washington in 1907, and reporters of the day noted that the city representatives had to "disabuse" the Washingtonians of their belief that wild Indians roamed the streets and the men all dressed in buckskins.
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They kind of disabuse you of the notion of your greatness pretty quickly.
Tonight 2010
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They kind of disabuse you of the notion of your greatness pretty quickly.
Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine 2010
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They kind of disabuse you of the notion of your greatness pretty quickly.
Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine 2010
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They kind of disabuse you of the notion of your greatness pretty quickly.
Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine 2010
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They kind of disabuse you of the notion of your greatness pretty quickly.
Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine 2010
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They kind of disabuse you of the notion of your greatness pretty quickly.
Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine 2010
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"They kind of disabuse you of the notion of your greatness pretty quickly.
From Inside the Box esnead@mac.com 2010
Prolagus commented on the word disabuse
Is the failure to disabuse yourself of science any more dangerous than the failure to disabuse yourself of philosophy, or mathematics, or logic, or psychology, or theology?
(from: VVAA, The Interaction Between Science and Philosophy)
September 22, 2008