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third-person singular simple present disabuses, present participle disabusing, simple past and past participle disabused
(transitive) To free (someone) of a misconception or misapprehension; to unveil a falsehood held by (someone). quotations examples
I had been too profoundly disabused of life's dearest illusions ever again to allow of their sweet engrossment.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), page 201
If we had any hopes or illusions about the National Party before they came into office, we were disabused of them quickly.
1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 140