"disabuse" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /dɪsəˈbjuːz/ [General-American, UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-disabuse.wav Forms: disabuses [present, singular, third-person], disabusing [participle, present], disabused [participle, past], disabused [past]
Etymology: From dis- + abuse. Compare French désabuser. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|dis|abuse}} dis- + abuse, {{cog|fr|désabuser}} French désabuser Head templates: {{en-verb}} disabuse (third-person singular simple present disabuses, present participle disabusing, simple past and past participle disabused)
  1. (transitive) To free (someone) of a misconception or misapprehension; to unveil a falsehood held by (someone). Tags: transitive Synonyms: undeceive Derived forms: disabusal, disabuser, undisabused Translations (free of a misconception): desenganyar (Catalan), 消除 (xiāochú) (Chinese Mandarin), 糾正 /纠正 (jiūzhèng) (Chinese Mandarin), 打消 (dǎxiāo) (Chinese Mandarin), ontdoen (Dutch), terugbrengen van een dwaling (Dutch), uit de droom helpen (Dutch), oikaista harhaluulo (Finnish), oikaista väärinkäsitys (Finnish), détromper (French), aufklären (German), eines Besseren belehren (German), wyprowadzać z błędu [imperfective] (Polish), wyprowadzić z błędu [perfective] (Polish), desenganar (Portuguese), dezabuzează (Romanian), desengañar (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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