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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Disabuse \Dis`a*buse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disabused}; p. pr & vb n. {Disabusing}.] [Pref. dis- + abuse; cf F. d['e]sabuser.] To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right To undeceive and disabuse the people. --South. If men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves or artifice, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. --J. Adams. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: disabuse v : free somebody (from an erroneous belief) From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed it advantageous to embrace.
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