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Pronounced as Dis + Uh + Byooz (emphasized) {Listen to it here}
Disabuse = Dis (meaning remove) + Abuse (which meant Delusion at some point of time)
Situational Uses / Sentences:
- She disabused him of the many old prejudices he held against women.
- Copernicus disabused the world of the notion of earth being the center of the universe.
What notion have you been disabused of recently?
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