disilludev.
rare.
transitive. To free from illusion; to undeceive, disillusion.
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society > communication > information > enlightenment > enlighten [verb (transitive)] > undeceive
to bring (a person) to reasona1400
to set (also put) someone right1551
unhoodwink1585
undeceive1598
unbeguile1599
disabuse1611
disdeceive1622
disinveigle1635
clarify1642
unconfound1649
uncheat1650
undelude1651
ungull1652
unpervert1655
unseduce1664
unbewilder1668
unclouda1711
disillude1860
disillusionize1861
disillusion1864
de-bamboozle1919
straighten1956
1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 1858–9 II. 98 I am obliged to disillude many of my visitors.
1892 A. Lang in Illustr. London News 16 July 83/1 I confess to feeling uncomfortable and ‘disilluded’ when I am thus taken behind the scenes.
1894 G. B. Shaw Let. 23 Apr. (1965) I. 427 Sergius in the play,..when disilluded, declares that life is a farce.
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