To free from a falsehood or misconception: I must disabuse you of your feelings of grandeur.
[French désabuser : dés-, dis- + abuser, to delude (from Old French, to misuse; see abuse).]
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To free from a falsehood or misconception: I must disabuse you of your feelings of grandeur.
[French désabuser : dés-, dis- + abuser, to delude (from Old French, to misuse; see abuse).]
Connoisseurs of the pseudo-polite putdown will appreciate this one, by a senior Republican US senator to a junior Democratic one:
"Based on past Obama statements, 'I concluded your professed concern for the institution and the public interest was genuine and admirable,' McCain wrote in a letter to Obama on Monday. 'Thank you for disabusing me of such notions.'"
Link: Senate War Of Words
Posted February 8, 2006.
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v.t.
To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed it advantageous to embrace.
The verb has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
free somebody (from an erroneous belief)
Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - rive ud af, desillusionere, befri
Nederlands (Dutch)
van verkeerd idee afhelpen, uit de droom helpen, rechtzetten
Français (French)
v. tr. - détromper, désenchanter de
Deutsch (German)
v. - eines Besseren belehren
Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - βγάζω από πλάνη, ανοίγω τα μάτια (κάποιου)
Italiano (Italian)
disingannare
Português (Portuguese)
v. - desenganar, desiludir
Русский (Russian)
выводить из заблуждения
Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - desengañar
Svenska (Swedish)
v. - ta ngn ur en villfarelse
中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
解惑, 使省悟, 释疑
中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 解惑, 使省悟, 釋疑
한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - (환상에서) 깨어 나게 하다
العربيه (Arabic)
(فعل) يحرر شخص من أفكار زائفه
עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - שחרר מרעיונות מוטעים, פקח עיניים
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