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disabuses

disabuses is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

Questions about disabuses

What is disabuses the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Disabuses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of disabuse.

Words near disabuses in the dictionary

  1. disabusals
  2. disabuse
  3. disabused
  4. disabuser
  5. disabusers
  6. disabuses
  7. disabuseth
  8. disabusing
  9. disacceptance
  10. disaccharidase
  11. disaccharidases

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