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DISABUSE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they disabuse ... he / she / it disabuses
Past simple: disabused
-ing form: disabusing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Free somebody (from an erroneous belief)
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "disabuse" is one way to...):
inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody of something