disabused
dis uh byoohzd
- v free somebody (from an erroneous belief)
- s freed of a mistaken or misguided notion
some people are still not disabused of the old idea that the universe revolves around the Earth
- I was swiftly disabused of that idea.
- If there were any true believers in such a rosy scenario still to be found within the Democratic party, they were likely disabused of that notion by the results of Tuesday's .
- Think of Ghana and Zambia, which upon independence expected that their cocoa plantations and copper deposits would ease their way to prosperity and were quickly disabused of .