Usually means: Correct someone's mistaken belief or idea.
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  1. disabuse: Merriam-Webster
  2. disabuse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disabuse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. disabuse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. disabuse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Disabuse, disabuse: Wordnik
  7. disabuse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. disabuse: Wiktionary
  9. disabuse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. disabuse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. disabuse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Disabuse, disabuse: Dictionary.com
  13. Disabuse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. disabuse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. disabuse: Rhymezone
  16. Disabuse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. disabuse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. disabuse: FreeDictionary.org
  19. disabuse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. disabuse: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. disabuse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. disabuse: Legal dictionary

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  1. disabuse: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (disabuse)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To free (someone) of a misconception or misapprehension; to unveil a falsehood held by (someone).

Similar:
disillusionize, undeceive, disenchant, disillude, dispel, disillusionise, disillusion, unbaffle, clear up, deconfuse, more...

Opposite:
mislead, deceive, delude, misinform

Types:
disillusion, undeceive, unbeguile, more...



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Similar:
disillusionize, undeceive, disenchant, disillude, dispel, disillusionise, disillusion, unbaffle, clear up, deconfuse, more...

Opposite:
mislead, deceive, delude, misinform

Types:
disillusion, undeceive, unbeguile, more...



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