What's the difference between disabuse and disabused?
Disabuse
Definition:
(v. t.) To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thomas Hitzlsperger's decision to reveal he "preferred living together with a man" may not disabuse them.
(2) Geim was disabused of the notion by the CEO of "a world-leading phone company", Novoselov recalls.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Paul Ryan on failed healthcare bill: ‘This is a disappointing day’ Ryan’s Trumpcare was a horrendous concoction and should disabuse fawning congressional reporters of the notion that the speaker is a man of deep intellect and self-reflection.
(4) Those who thought County would fold, however, were quickly disabused of the notion by Burke, who received the ball on the right touchline in the 56th minute, turned and curled a glorious left-footed shot beyond the desperately reaching Bunn .
(5) By my early 20s I had been cruelly disabused of the notion that the young live for ever.
(6) Photograph: Murdo MacLeod It is such desperate, insouciant optimism about the consequences of unbundling the UK which the Alistair Darling-led Better Together campaign struggles to disabuse.
(7) Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian The idea of open access is a remnant of the initial vision for privatisation under John Major’s government, which was swiftly disabused of the notion that the whole railway could run on such a basis.
(8) You will have to quickly disabuse the unions, and everyone else, of any idea that this means that you are owned by the unions.
(9) Professor John Curtice, a psephologist at Strathclyde University, said the results showed the share of the vote going to Farage's party had dropped since last year, but "anybody who thought that the Ukip bubble was going to be easily deflated should now be disabused of that notion".
(10) Until you slowly disabused them of the notion over the next 17 years … Yeah, I decided to keep clean sheets for them and let Stevie Gerrard and others take the plaudits at the other end.
(11) The surest way to disabuse yourself of this pernicious falsehood is to read the Bible itself," he says.
(12) Even the victims courageous enough to think they could tell the authorities, the police or the media, were quickly disabused of their illusion, because in a sense those institutions were Savile's victims, too.
(13) Writing on the ConservativeHome website , the Tory peer said: "If anyone expected an immediate leap in the Conservative party's popularity, the evidence should by now have disabused them of the notion.
(14) "Certainly what these local elections demonstrate is that anybody who thought that the Ukip bubble was going to be easily deflated should now be disabused of that notion," he said.
(15) A quick trip across the island disabuses any real worry that strip malls and box stores are imminent, but a certain measure of change is definitely on the way.
(16) Now, this kind of serendipitous synchronicity among designers does nothing to disabuse me of my belief that what we call "trends" are actually "evil plots cooked up by designers who scheme together ahead of time to make similar colours and clothes to convince the public that in order to look up to date we need to buy their wares."
(17) Foreman, roughly disabused of his conviction that all his rivals were entombed in physical inferiority, is by no means the only one left stunned by the blow and that gives Ali a particular satisfaction.
(18) In his remarks in Berlin, Hammond sought to disabuse any notion that the UK may pull back from Brexit.
(19) Well, I say, when you write novels about narrators who live in your apartment, or share your own name, you don't exactly try to disabuse them of their confusion, do you?
(20) Mental health charities say "depression is real and debilitating"; people who make it their business to speak "common sense", to disabuse the lefties of their leftiness, say "you don't look very depressed to me".
Disabused
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Disabuse
Example Sentences:
(1) Thomas Hitzlsperger's decision to reveal he "preferred living together with a man" may not disabuse them.
(2) Geim was disabused of the notion by the CEO of "a world-leading phone company", Novoselov recalls.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Paul Ryan on failed healthcare bill: ‘This is a disappointing day’ Ryan’s Trumpcare was a horrendous concoction and should disabuse fawning congressional reporters of the notion that the speaker is a man of deep intellect and self-reflection.
(4) Those who thought County would fold, however, were quickly disabused of the notion by Burke, who received the ball on the right touchline in the 56th minute, turned and curled a glorious left-footed shot beyond the desperately reaching Bunn .
(5) By my early 20s I had been cruelly disabused of the notion that the young live for ever.
(6) Photograph: Murdo MacLeod It is such desperate, insouciant optimism about the consequences of unbundling the UK which the Alistair Darling-led Better Together campaign struggles to disabuse.
(7) Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian The idea of open access is a remnant of the initial vision for privatisation under John Major’s government, which was swiftly disabused of the notion that the whole railway could run on such a basis.
(8) You will have to quickly disabuse the unions, and everyone else, of any idea that this means that you are owned by the unions.
(9) Professor John Curtice, a psephologist at Strathclyde University, said the results showed the share of the vote going to Farage's party had dropped since last year, but "anybody who thought that the Ukip bubble was going to be easily deflated should now be disabused of that notion".
(10) Until you slowly disabused them of the notion over the next 17 years … Yeah, I decided to keep clean sheets for them and let Stevie Gerrard and others take the plaudits at the other end.
(11) The surest way to disabuse yourself of this pernicious falsehood is to read the Bible itself," he says.
(12) Even the victims courageous enough to think they could tell the authorities, the police or the media, were quickly disabused of their illusion, because in a sense those institutions were Savile's victims, too.
(13) Writing on the ConservativeHome website , the Tory peer said: "If anyone expected an immediate leap in the Conservative party's popularity, the evidence should by now have disabused them of the notion.
(14) "Certainly what these local elections demonstrate is that anybody who thought that the Ukip bubble was going to be easily deflated should now be disabused of that notion," he said.
(15) A quick trip across the island disabuses any real worry that strip malls and box stores are imminent, but a certain measure of change is definitely on the way.
(16) Now, this kind of serendipitous synchronicity among designers does nothing to disabuse me of my belief that what we call "trends" are actually "evil plots cooked up by designers who scheme together ahead of time to make similar colours and clothes to convince the public that in order to look up to date we need to buy their wares."
(17) Foreman, roughly disabused of his conviction that all his rivals were entombed in physical inferiority, is by no means the only one left stunned by the blow and that gives Ali a particular satisfaction.
(18) In his remarks in Berlin, Hammond sought to disabuse any notion that the UK may pull back from Brexit.
(19) Well, I say, when you write novels about narrators who live in your apartment, or share your own name, you don't exactly try to disabuse them of their confusion, do you?
(20) Mental health charities say "depression is real and debilitating"; people who make it their business to speak "common sense", to disabuse the lefties of their leftiness, say "you don't look very depressed to me".