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disabused

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dis·a·buse  (ds-byz)
tr.v. dis·a·bused, dis·a·bus·ing, dis·a·bus·es
To free from a falsehood or misconception: I must disabuse you of your feelings of grandeur.
[French désabuser : dés-, dis- + abuser, to delude (from Old French, to misuse; see abuse).]
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Adj.1.disabuseddisabused - freed of a mistaken or misguided notion; "some people are still not disabused of the old idea that the universe revolves around the Earth"
undeceived
disenchanted - freed from enchantment


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Influenced by these thoughts, his face wore an expression so benign and tranquil, that the waiter in immediate attendance upon him felt he could almost have died in his defence, and settled in his own mind (until the receipt of the bill, and a very small fee for very great trouble disabused it of the idea) that such an apostolic customer was worth half-a-dozen of the ordinary run of visitors, at least.
Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context
And now look again, and see what will naturally follow it' the prisoners are released and disabused of their error.
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