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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disillusion
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
become
▪ For some time now I have gradually become more and more disillusioned with teaching.
▪ Also, I became very disillusioned with the States after the first police riots started.
▪ During his stints as a Red Guard and a soldier, however, Wei became disillusioned with the one-party socialist ideology.
▪ He became disillusioned with law after losing a case due to a technicality.
▪ You have lost a little of your zest for life and have become quite disillusioned or cynical.
▪ They may become disillusioned and leave football either for another sport or to return to general practice.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I hate to disillusion you, but you'll probably never get your money back from them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Some may be converted and disillusioned, others will be unconverted but believing or searching people.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disillusion

Disillusion \Dis`il*lu"sion\, n. The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.
--Lowell.

Disillusion

Disillusion \Dis`il*lu"sion\, v. t. To free from an illusion; to disillusionize.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disillusion

"to free or be freed from illusion," 1855, from a noun meaning "act of freeing from illusion" (1814); see dis- + illusion. Related: Disillusioned; disillusioning.

Wiktionary
disillusion

n. 1 (context countable English) The act or process of disenchanting or freeing from a false belief. 2 (context uncountable English) The state of having been or process of becoming freed of false belief. vb. (context transitive English) To free or deprive of illusion; to disenchant.

WordNet
disillusion
  1. n. freeing from false belief or illusions [syn: disenchantment, disillusionment]

  2. v. free from enchantment [syn: disenchant] [ant: enchant]

Wikipedia
Disillusion (band)

Disillusion is a German progressive metal band.

Disillusion

Disillusion may refer to:

  • Disillusion (band), a German progressive metal band
  • "Disillusion" (ABBA song)
  • "Disillusion" (Sachi Tainaka song)
  • "Disillusion" (Upstairs, Downstairs), a 1975 episode of Upstairs, Downstairs
  • Disillusion (album), a 1984 album by Japanese heavy metal band Loudness
  • The second part of the song " Starship Trooper" by Yes
  • The remedy for illusion
Disillusion (Upstairs, Downstairs)

"Disillusion" is the seventh episode of the fifth and final series of the period drama Upstairs, Downstairs. It first aired on 19 October 1975 on ITV.

Disillusion (ABBA song)

"Disillusion" is a ballad by the pop group ABBA, on their first album Ring Ring (1973). It is notable as the only song ABBA recorded to have a song-writing credit from Agnetha Faltskog. She, unlike Anni-Frid Lyngstad, was a songwriter as well as a singer, and had dabbled in that in her pre-ABBA career. She wrote the music, with lyrics added by fellow ABBA member Björn Ulvaeus.

Disillusion (album)

Disillusion is the fourth studio album by Japanese heavy metal band Loudness. It was recorded, mixed and mastered in London, England, in 1983 and released at the beginning of 1984. The sound engineer chosen for the recording sessions was the expert Julian Mendelsohn, who had previously worked with acts like Yes, Elton John, Jimmy Page and Bob Marley. The original Japanese version was licensed and released by Music for Nations in the UK and Roadrunner Records in Europe. Attention by major US labels for the band and the need to make their work accessible to Western audiences, prompted a new release of the album with vocal tracks sung in English on July 1, 1984. The English version opened the album with the instrumental "Anthem (Loudness Overture)" by Akira Takasaki, which was missing in the original Japanese release.

Usage examples of "disillusion".

But if Adams was disillusioned by the Franklin he came to know at Passy, he also recognized that Franklin had the confidence of Vergennes and the French Court as did no other American, and it was therefore the duty of all to treat him with respect.

I caught a sense, despite the general bustle and busy-ness, of despondency, downheartedness, disillusion.

I think nurses who stay in nursing either become disillusioned or develop a feeling of confidcnce about what they are.

Lamancha thought they were those of one of the three stags, but Wattie disillusioned him.

Archuleta house candles always flickered, and santos--some made from cornhusks, a number fashioned by Ruby herself, and still others carved by that disillusioned expatriot Snuffy Ledoux--lined the walls.

The driver, thoroughly disillusioned by these junkettings, began muttering under his breath.

It struck me as the kind of program that could only have been dreamt up by scientists, disillusioned security men, and code-geeks, and exactly the sort of naive, apolitical suggestion that got laughed out of enthusiastic young information-techs at their first IWWWW meeting.

The music of a concertina rose and fell, like the sighing of some disillusioned spirit.

She would see the face she had not seen since they stood together at the chancel step--the face from which the glad confidence slowly faded, a horror of chill disillusion taking its place.

They'd been together since their time as young conscripts in Afghanistan, leaving after the previous Chechen war in the mid-nineties, disillusioned with the leadership that had let them lose against the rebels.

There was something so world-weary and disillusioned about Lady Belling ham, though that was not to say that she had lost her natural kindness.

Then the cattle had gone missing, Jake had gone to jail and, brokenhearted and disillusioned, Megan had left Wyoming.

Her experience with Croser probably has done little to disillusion her—and of course Bronson's people aren't going to.

Naturally a man of independent and rather scornful outlook, he had suffered much from defeated ambition, from disillusions of many kinds, from subjection to grim necessity.

It was so easy because it was all dead and there weren't any disillusions comin' to me.