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disabused

disabused is the simple past and past participle of disabuse.

Meaning of disabuse

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
    Synonyms:
    undeceive

Words formed from disabused

Questions about disabused

What is disabused the simple past and past participle of?
Disabused is the simple past and past participle of disabuse.

Words near disabused in the dictionary

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

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