📚 Disabuse, verb.
🔉 /ˌdɪsəˈbjuːz/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition (with object): Persuade (someone) that an idea or belief is mistaken.
❗️ Examples:
1. He quickly disabused me of my fanciful notions.
2. Two days after our return to Trinidad, a triumphant call disabused me of any idea of his suffering.
3. If Wright had aspirations to fight in one of the war's main theaters after enlisting with the Sixth Iowa Cavalry Regiment, he was quickly disabused of the idea.
4. Of course, once I started doing the job I was quickly disabused of any romantic ideas I had about it.
5. Cameron is quick to disabuse anyone of the idea that she had a happy, randy, angst-free childhood.
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🔉 /ˌdɪsəˈbjuːz/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition (with object): Persuade (someone) that an idea or belief is mistaken.
❗️ Examples:
1. He quickly disabused me of my fanciful notions.
2. Two days after our return to Trinidad, a triumphant call disabused me of any idea of his suffering.
3. If Wright had aspirations to fight in one of the war's main theaters after enlisting with the Sixth Iowa Cavalry Regiment, he was quickly disabused of the idea.
4. Of course, once I started doing the job I was quickly disabused of any romantic ideas I had about it.
5. Cameron is quick to disabuse anyone of the idea that she had a happy, randy, angst-free childhood.
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🌀 @cambridge_dic