disabuseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音, General American) IPA: /dɪsəˈbjuːz/

動詞

disabuse (third-person singular simple present disabuses, present participle disabusing, simple past and past participle disabused)

1. (transitive) To free (someone) of a misconception or misapprehension; to unveil a falsehood held by (someone).
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 201:

     I had been too profoundly disabused of life's dearest illusions ever again to allow of their sweet engrossment.

   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 140:

     If we had any hopes or illusions about the National Party before they came into office, we were disabused of them quickly.

   • 2017 June 29, Marina Hyde, “Not Brooklyn's finest: who's to blame for Beckham Jr's photo debacle?”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     If anyone thought the auction house was about art and not commerce, they should finally be disabused of that notion by the prospect of an international tour for a photo of Posh Spice fishing, captioned: “my brother cruz was the best but i didn’t catch anything – annoying but still fun”.

   • 2024 July 11, Theodore Schleifer, Jacob Bernstein, Reid J. Epstein, “How Biden Lost George Clooney and Hollywood”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Mr. Katzenberg is now taking his commensurate lumps, particularly because contributors feel he helped disabuse donors’ concerns about Mr. Biden’s physical state.

同意語

• undeceive

派生語

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アナグラム

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