as in to disabuse
to free from mistaken beliefs or foolish hopes
promptly undeceived the young woman about the sincerity of the man's intentions
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This did nothing to disabuse fans and media of the notion that its executive team is shadowy.—
James Horncastle,
The Athletic,
30 Dec. 2024 -
For true believers in the cult of social justice, even Mangum’s confession will not disabuse them of their belief that those who are born into the wrong identities are the illegitimate beneficiaries of generational theft.—
The Editors,
National Review,
17 Dec. 2024
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Yet his years behind the scenes of the drug’s development left him and his family disillusioned.—
Robin Fields,
ProPublica,
12 Feb. 2025
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Fed up and disillusioned, just three months after Danni's death, Farquhar resigned from the sheriff's office.—
Peter Van Sant,
CBS News,
8 Feb. 2025
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Despite the new investments and programming on the public side, some regulars are disenchanted by the developments at PowMow, primarily because of the privatization of two of the formerly public lifts and the increase in pass prices.—
Elycia Rubin,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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The ballet tries to capture that biography through movement, starting with a chapter in which Casanova actually entered religious life but left after being disenchanted — and, as the story goes, seduced into a life of debauchery.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
The Denver Post,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Undeceive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undeceive. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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