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disabuse
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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).]
disabuse
Verb
[-abusing, -abused] to rid (someone) of a mistaken idea: Arnold felt unable to disabuse her of her prejudices
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Verb1.disabuse - free somebody (from an erroneous belief)
inform - impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to; "I informed him of his rights"
disabuse
verb (someone of an idea or notion) enlighten, correct, set right, open the eyes of, set straight, shatter (someone's) illusions, free from error, undeceive
Translations
disabuse [dɪsəˈbjuːz] vt → desengañar
disabuse [dɪsəˈbjuːz] vt to disabuse sb (of) → jdn befreien (von)


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For example, he disabuses the reader of the notion that one prays to get God to listen.
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Think: American Film Theatre's presentation of Eugene O'Neill's epigrammatic epic about a charismatic motor mouth (Lee Marvin) who disabuses his fellow drunks of their already dim ``pipe dreams'' in a Skid Row bar.
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Esposito disabuses the notion that Islam and capitalism, Islam and democracy, and Islam and human rights are incompatible.
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