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disabuse
What does disabuse mean?
disabuse (verb): free somebody (from an erroneous belief).
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use disabuse in a sentence?
- Nothing could disabuse them of that preposterous notion. (Tatoeba sentence #8989367 by AlanF_US, CC BY 2.0 FR)
Where does disabuse come from?
From dis- + abuse.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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free somebody (from an erroneous belief)
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