disabuse
Example Sentences
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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
His wife, he says, is happy to disabuse him of that notion.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2025
“Moonshine,” a Canadian dramedy available on the CW’s website, has enough dysfunction and wild behavior to largely disabuse one of this dream … but enough Canadian charm that it still holds a certain appeal.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2024
We do not disabuse them; we know that food is as important as ammunition and only for that reason must be brought up.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
Vocabulary lists containing disabuse
Power Prefix: dis-
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