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disabuse

dis·a·buse [ dìssə byz ] (past and past participle dis·a·bused, present participle dis·a·bus·ing, 3rd person present singular dis·a·bus·es)


transitive verb 
Definition:
 
persuade that something is untrue: to tell somebody or make somebody realize that an idea is not true
I was quickly disabused of my idealistic notions about the campaign.
She disabused him of many old prejudices.

[Early 17th century. <abuse in the obsolete sense "a delusion"]

dis·a·bus·al noun
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