(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".
Misapprehension
Definition:
(n.) A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.
Example Sentences:
(1) This review considers the biophysics of penetrating missile wounds, highlights some of the more common misconceptions and seeks to reconcile the conflicting and confusing management doctrines that are promulgated in the literature-differences that arise not only from two scenarios, peace and war, but also from misapprehensions of the wounding process.
(2) Theories of denture retention have suffered from confusion of model, algebraic errors, and misapprehension of the physics of capillarity, adhesion and cohesion, as well as the role of atmospheric pressure.
(3) have had quite a deep impact, so I think some people react very defensively and dismissively to any feminist article on the misapprehension that it must be about taking men down, or calling all men sexist or ‘bad’ – which isn’t the case at all – I think this can cause some people to feel scared, that somehow by making women equal we will have to diminish men in some way.
(4) There is a misapprehension, he says, that every time a child sex crime reaches the media it disgraces the community.
(5) I must admit I was surprised, and found myself wondering if the misapprehension all comes down to bone structure.
(6) If there has been one constant throughout a music career lasting almost 30 years, Tracey Thorn would almost certainly say it has been other people's misapprehensions about what she's really like.
(7) The biggest misapprehension about Sondheim – that he puts intellect above feeling, as if the two aren't connected – rests, as he sees it, on a wrong-headed understanding of art; that it is driven by something imprecise and mystical, rather than hard, fast rules.
(8) As the many questions raised by a generic viewpoint are considered, one can observe that much of the resistance to this concept among professionals is attributable to fear of the unfamiliar, protection of vested interest, misapprehension about consequences and, not least, prejudice reflecting the stereotyped ideas of the general population.
(9) Bell said he "completely refuted" he was antisemitic and said he could "not be held responsible for whatever cultural precepts and misapprehensions people choose to bring to my cartoon".
(10) Cooper and Ryan describe interaction of penetrating missiles with tissues, they denounce that they call common misapprehensions in wound ballistic and they try to reconcile engineers works and clinical observations.
(11) She ordered her officials to "urgently consider how to approach the Americans on the question of possible Soviet misapprehensions about a surprise Nato attack".
(12) Only by doing so is there any prospect of dissolving the misapprehension that Vietnam veterans have been poisoned by herbicides.
(13) This misapprehension was caused, in part, by confusion with another pharyngeal resident, Neisseria cinerea.
(14) "But it rests on a fundamental misapprehension of what works.
(15) These misapprehensions may influence the management of wounds by suggesting didactic approaches based upon a preconceived notion of the nature and severity of the wound for different types of projectiles.
(16) Such misapprehensions can be helped by the counselor's willingness to discuss sexual issues openly.
(17) Spinal cord-injured clients have many fears and misapprehension about their sexual functioning.
(18) Many, including Girls creator Lena Dunham, have tweeted support for Dylan , while others have pointed to a blog from last week by the director Robert Weide, who made a documentary about Allen and who seeks to debunk some of the misapprehensions about the case.
(19) "By arresting, imprisoning and attempting to deport Sheikh Raed Salah on what the judge has determined as a 'misapprehension of the facts', the British government have acted in a shameful way," Sarah Colborne, the PSC's director, said.
(20) Talks could help to break down some of the misapprehensions that have inflamed the conflict.