| 单词 | disabuse |
| 释义 | disabuse (once / 10658 pages) v Disabuse means to free someone of a belief that is not true. Many teachers of health find that when they teach, they spend as much energy disabusing kids of false beliefs as they do giving them the facts. Disabuse is often connected to the word notion or idea. In singing lessons, you must disabuse young singers of the idea that they can sing better by singing louder. In the first year of college, many people are disabused of the idea that the way they are is "normal," by meeting so many people who represent other ways to be. WORD FAMILYdisabuse: disabused, disabuses, disabusing+/abuse: abused, abuser, abuses, abusing, abusive, disabuse, self-abuse/abused: abusedly, unabused/abuser: abusers/abusive: abusively, abusiver USAGE EXAMPLESIf he thought the PRI’s old method of central command would work in a more sophisticated country, he has been disabused. Economist(Nov 24, 2016) He considered flying another five missions to reach 50, but his commanding officer disabused him of that notion. Washington Times(Nov 20, 2016) If the latter hoped the abuse scandal might finally shatter the moral authority of the former, they have now been disabused. Economist(Nov 17, 2016) v free somebody (from an erroneous belief) Hyper inform impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to |
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