"disabuse" meaning in English

See disabuse in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

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 Middle French désabuser, or dis- + abuse. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|frm|désabuser}} Middle French désabuser, {{prefix|en|dis|abuse}} dis- + abuse 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): 消除 (xiāochú) (Chinese Mandarin), 糾正 (Chinese Mandarin), 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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