unhoodwinking

Verb

unhoodwink (third-person singular simple present unhoodwinks, present participle unhoodwinking, simple past and past participle unhoodwinked)

1. (transitive) To remove a blindfold or blinder from.
   • The tail of the cart was turned towards the distant deer; the keeper entered it, and unhoodwinking his charge, it leaped through the door upon the ground, and there lay for a moment crouched flat on its belly;1841, The Asiatic journal and monthly register for British and foreign India, China, and Australasia - Volume 36
2. (transitive) To disabuse of a deception.
   • And yet this Error and Superstition is so deeply rooted in the minds of the Papists, that there is scarcely any way left to disabuse and unhoodwink them, so fatally have their Priests and Monks enchanted them.1704, Antonio Gavin, The Frauds of Romish Monks and Priests