Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to disabuse
Participle: disabused
Gerund: disabusing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | disabuse |
| you | disabuse |
| he;she;it | disabuses |
| we | disabuse |
| you | disabuse |
| they | disabuse |
Perfect
| I | have disabused |
| you | have disabused |
| he;she;it | has disabused |
| we | have disabused |
| you | have disabused |
| they | have disabused |
Past
| I | disabused |
| you | disabused |
| he;she;it | disabused |
| we | disabused |
| you | disabused |
| they | disabused |
Pluperfect
| I | had disabused |
| you | had disabused |
| he;she;it | had disabused |
| we | had disabused |
| you | had disabused |
| they | had disabused |
Future
| I | will disabuse |
| you | will disabuse |
| he;she;it | will disabuse |
| we | will disabuse |
| you | will disabuse |
| they | will disabuse |
Future Perfect
| I | will have disabused |
| you | will have disabused |
| he;she;it | will have disabused |
| we | will have disabused |
| you | will have disabused |
| they | will have disabused |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | disabuse |
| you | disabuse |
| he;she;it | disabuse |
| we | disabuse |
| you | disabuse |
| they | disabuse |
Perfect
| I | have disabused |
| you | have disabused |
| he;she;it | have disabused |
| we | have disabused |
| you | have disabused |
| they | have disabused |
Imperfect
| I | disabused |
| you | disabused |
| he;she;it | disabused |
| we | disabused |
| you | disabused |
| they | disabused |
Pluperfect
| I | had disabused |
| you | had disabused |
| he;she;it | had disabused |
| we | had disabused |
| you | had disabused |
| they | had disabused |
Conditional
Present
| I | would disabuse |
| you | would disabuse |
| he;she;it | would disabuse |
| we | would disabuse |
| you | would disabuse |
| they | would disabuse |
Perfect
| I | would have disabused |
| you | would have disabused |
| he;she;it | would have disabused |
| we | would have disabused |
| you | would have disabused |
| they | would have disabused |
Imperative
| you | disabuse |
| we | Let's disabuse |
| you | disabuse |
Verbs conjugated like 'disabuse'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'disabuse'
disable,
disbase,
disburse,
dishouse,
disuse,
abuse,
database,
dialyse,
diarise,
diffuse,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From dis- + abuse. Compare French désabuser. See: French '
désabuser'.
Sample Sentences
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I had been too profoundly disabused of life's dearest illusions ever again to allow of their sweet engrossment. [1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 201:]
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If we had any hopes or illusions about the National Party before they came into office, we were disabused of them quickly. [1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 140:]
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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”. [2017 June 29, Marina Hyde, “Not Brooklyn's finest: who's to blame for Beckham Jr's photo debacle?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
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Mr. Katzenberg is now taking his commensurate lumps, particularly because contributors feel he helped disabuse donors’ concerns about Mr. Biden’s physical state. [2024 July 11, Theodore Schleifer, Jacob Bernstein, Reid J. Epstein, “How Biden Lost George Clooney and Hollywood”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]