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disabuse

/dɪsəˈbjuːz/

disabuse verb: to free (someone) of a misconception or misapprehension; to unveil a falsehood held by (someone).

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Verb

disabuse (third-person singular simple present disabuses, present participle disabusing, simple past and past participle disabused)

  1. (transitive) To free (someone) of a misconception or misapprehension; to unveil a falsehood held by (someone).
    • 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), →OCLC, 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
    Synonyms:
    undeceive

disabuse meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

disabuse in Tamil

மருள் நீக்கு, ஐயம் அகற்று, தவறான எண்ணத்தைப் போக்கு, சரிப்படுத்து

disabuse in Urdu

آنکھیں کھول دینا, تصحیح کرنا, ٹھیک کرنا

disabuse in Malayalam

തെറ്റിദ്ധാരണ മാറ്റുക, ഭ്രമനിവാരണം ചെയ്യുക, തെറ്റു തിരുത്തുക

disabuse in Kannada

ಭ್ರಮೆಯನ್ನು ನಿವಾರಿಸು, ತಪ್ಪುತಿಳಿವಳಿಕೆ ಬಿಡಿಸು, ಭ್ರಾಂತಿಯಿಲ್ಲದಂತೆ ಮಾಡು, ತಪ್ಪು ತಿಳಿವಳಿಕೆ ಕಳೆ, ಭ್ರಾಂತಿ ತಪ್ಪಿಸು

Synonyms of disabuse

Forms of disabuse

third-person singular presentdisabuses
present participledisabusing
past participledisabused
pastdisabused

Past tense of disabuse: disabused

Origin of disabuse

From dis- + abuse. Compare French désabuser.

Words formed from disabuse

Words that rhyme with disabuse

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Questions about disabuse

What does disabuse mean?
Disabuse means to free (someone) of a misconception or misapprehension; to unveil a falsehood held by (someone).
What is disabuse in Tamil?
Disabuse in Tamil is மருள் நீக்கு, ஐயம் அகற்று, தவறான எண்ணத்தைப் போக்கு. See Disabuse meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is disabuse?
Disabuse is a verb.
How do you pronounce disabuse?
Disabuse is pronounced /dɪsəˈbjuːz/ (UK).
What is the past tense of disabuse?
The past tense of disabuse is disabused.

Words near disabuse in the dictionary

  1. disablism
  2. disablist
  3. disablists
  4. disabusal
  5. disabusals
  6. disabuse
  7. disabused
  8. disabuser
  9. disabusers
  10. disabuses
  11. disabuseth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disabuse (page history and authors); disabuse (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disabuse (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disabuse (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disabuse (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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