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disabuse
(encz) | disabuse,vyvést z omylu Zdeněk Brož |
disabuse
(gcide) | 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.
[1913 Webster]
To undeceive and disabuse the people. --South.
[1913 Webster]
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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disabuse
(wn) | disabuse
v 1: free somebody (from an erroneous belief) |
disabuse
(devil) | DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better
error than the one which he has deemed it advantageous to embrace.
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disabused
(encz) | disabused, |
Disabused
(gcide) | 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.
[1913 Webster]
To undeceive and disabuse the people. --South.
[1913 Webster]
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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disabused
(wn) | disabused
adj 1: freed of a mistaken or misguided notion; "some people are
still not disabused of the old idea that the universe
revolves around the Earth" [syn: disabused(p),
undeceived] |
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