disabuse
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The President may have to disabuse them of that impression.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
We have to disabuse ourselves of that idea.
From Slate • Dec. 26, 2025
“This time of year traditionally has not been fire season but now, we disabuse any notion that there is a season, it’s year-round in the state of California,” he said on social media.
From Salon • Jan. 15, 2025
The movie’s Australian-born director, Justin Kurzel, has long had a thing for bleakness, and his new movie won’t disabuse you of that characterization.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024
There was nothing that one could do to disabuse them of this notion.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Vocabulary lists containing disabuse
Power Prefix: dis-
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Grade 12, List 5
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