Nothing could disabuse them of that preposterous notion.
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Disabuse
Synonyms for "disabuse" (45 found)
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18 translations across 11 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- desenganyar verb (free of a misconception)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 打消 verb (free of a misconception)
- 消除 verb (free of a misconception)
- 糾正 /纠正 verb (free of a misconception)
Dutch
3 entries- ontdoen verb (free of a misconception)
- terugbrengen van een dwaling verb (free of a misconception)
- uit de droom helpen verb (free of a misconception)
Finnish
2 entries- oikaista harhaluulo verb (free of a misconception)
- oikaista väärinkäsitys verb (free of a misconception)
French
1 entries- détromper verb (free of a misconception)
German
2 entries- aufklären verb (free of a misconception)
- eines Besseren belehren verb (free of a misconception)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- bringe ut av villfarelse verb (free of a misconception)
Polish
2 entries- wyprowadzać z błędu verb (free of a misconception)
- wyprowadzić z błędu verb (free of a misconception)
Portuguese
1 entries- desenganar verb (free of a misconception)
Romanian
1 entries- dezabuzează verb (free of a misconception)
Spanish
1 entries- desengañar verb (free of a misconception)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
The behavior of Elon Musk should disabuse most people of the notion that the rich deserve their wealth.
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Science would later disabuse us of the notion that the moon is made of green cheese — or is even green — but scientists aren't poets and perhaps that's why there doesn't seem to be the same enthusiasm for space exploration that there once was. A recent survey by the Pew Research Center found that, when asked to name the greatest U.S. accomplishment of the past 50 years, just 12 percent of Americans named sending men to the moon, down a third from 10 years ago.
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I had been too profoundly disabused of life's dearest illusions ever again to allow of their sweet engrossment.
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