Disabuse
[,dɪsə'bjuːz] or [,dɪsə'bjuz]
Definition
(v. t.) To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right.
Edited by Angus
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Undeceive, set right.
Editor: Pratt
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Undeceive, inform, correct, enlighten, rectify
ANT:Deceive, mislead, prejudice, prepossess, hoodwink, inveigle, stultify,bamboozle
Checked by John
Definition
v.t. to undeceive: to set right.
Typed by Alphonse
Unserious Contents or Definition
v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed it advantageous to embrace.
Typist: Nola
Examples
- There is little about it to disabuse one's mind of the error if he should take it into his head that he was in the heart of Arabia. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- As the army was seen marching on triumphantly, however, the minds of the people became disabused and they saw the true state of affairs. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- And now look again, and see what will naturally follow if the prisoners are released and disabused of their error. Plato. The Republic.
Editor: Ramon