Word.ws English Dictionary

disabusing

disabusing is the present participle and gerund 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 disabusing

What is disabusing the present participle and gerund of?
Disabusing is the present participle and gerund of disabuse.

Words near disabusing in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: disabusing (page history and authors); disabuse (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “disabusing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/disabusing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.