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Disabusing

disabuse \dis`a*buse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disabused; p. pr. & vb. n. Disabusing.] [Pref. dis- + abuse; cf. F. d['e]sabuser.] To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right; -- often used with of; as, to disabuse one of his illusions.

To undeceive and disabuse the people.
--South.

If men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves or artifice, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history.
--J. Adams.

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disabusing

vb. (present participle of disabuse English)

Usage examples of "disabusing".

Some time was devoted by a few of the more articulate guests, in tones of sweet reason for the most part, to disabusing him of his dark views, without success.

I, of course, obeyed, never disabusing my lord and master of his assumptions regarding me.

It was possible my mission on earth was not solving crimes, but disabusing people from saying, “He invited John and myself.