DISABUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disabuse mean? 

• DISABUSE (verb)
  The verb DISABUSE has 1 sense:

1. free somebody (from an erroneous belief)

  Familiarity information: DISABUSE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISABUSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they disabuse    ... he / she / it disabuses   
Past simple: disabused   
Past participle: disabused   
-ing form: disabusing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Free somebody (from an erroneous belief)

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "disabuse" is one way to...):

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody of something