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dis-uh-BYOOZ/ˌdɪsəˈbjuːz/

Disabuse means free someone from a false idea: disabuse someone of a notion. The of is required. Undeceive is rarer; correct is plainer. You disabuse a person, not a fact. Do not write disabuse from.

Meaning

To free someone from a false idea (disabuse someone of).

Examples

• “Let me disabuse you of the idea that C2 is only rare words.”
• “Colleagues soon disabused him of the idea that marking was light.”
• “Let me disabuse readers of the myth that C2 is only Latin.”

Good to know

disabuse someone of + idea. Not disabuse from. Plain: correct a false belief.

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