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Definition: Disabuse |
DisabuseVerb1. Free somebody (from an erroneous belief). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "disabuse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Note: Disabuse \Dis`a*buse"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Disabused; present participle verb or noun Disabusing.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Satire | DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed it advantageous to embrace. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disclosure | Raise the mask, drop the mask, lift the mask, remove the mask, throw off the mask; expose; lay open; undeceive, unbeguile; disabuse, set right, correct, open the eyes of; d_sillusionner. |
Dissuasion | Disenchant,disillusion, deflate, take down a peg, pop one's balloon, prick one's balloon, burst one's bubble; disabuse (correction) a. |
Information | Undeceive, unbeguile; set right, correct, open the eyes of, disabuse, disillusion one of. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Disabuse |
| English words defined with "disabuse": Disabusing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "disabuse": Disabuse ♦ Lock ♦ Privacy ♦ Way. (references) |
| "Disabuse" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Disabuse" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "disabuse": disabuse correction a ♦ disabuse of. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
disabuse | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "disabuse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i hap sytë (undeceive), çliroj nga iluzionet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حرر من الوهم (disillusion), حرر من الخطأ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отварям някому очите, изваждам от заблуждение (undeceive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ازحقیقت اگاه کردن , ازاشتباه دراوردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | détromper, désenchanter (disenchant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | befreien (absolve, affranchise, deliver, dispense, emancipate, excuse, exempt, exonerate, extricate, free, lib, liberate, loose, loosen, purge, release, relieve, rescue, rid, set free, to enfranchise, to extricate, to relieve, unbind, unclog, unfetter, unshackle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εξάγω τησ απάτησ (undecieve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לשחרר מאשלי" (disenchant, disillusion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kiábrándít (disappoint, disenchant, disillusion, disillusionize, to disappoint, to disenchant, to disillusion, to dismay), felvilágosít (acquaint, enlighten, illuminate, inform, lighten, to clue sy in, to clue sy up, to enlighten). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | disingannare (disillusion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | isabuseday desiludir (deceive, disappoint, disillusion, disillusionize, frustrate, let down, set straight, undeceive), desenganar (disillusionize, disincentive, undeceive), desabusar. (various references) trezi (arouse, awake, awaken, call, evoke, hold up, hound on, induce, inspire with, knock up, prompt, raise, rip up, rouse, sharpen, wake, wake up), aduce la realitate (disenchant, undeceive). (various references) выводить из заблуждения (undeceive), освобождать от иллюзий. (various references) izvesti iz zablude. (various references) desengañar (disillusion). (various references) ta ngn ur en villfarelse. (various references) ทำให้หายเข้าใจผิ". (various references) uyandırmak (arouse, awake, awaken, call, disabuse of, evoke, excite, inspire, kindle, knock up, provoke, quicken, recall, revive, rouse, rouse up, spark, stir, stir up, undeceive, wake, wake up, waken, whet), kurtarmak (absolve, bail, bail out, bring off, bring through, clean up, clear, deliver, disabuse of, disembarrass, disembody, disengage, extricate, free, get smb. out of a jam, help, keep from, liberate, pull through, recover, redeem, relieve, rescue, retrieve, retrieve from, rid, salvage, salve, save, set free, tear away, unfetter, worry smb. out of smth.), gözünü açmak (alert, awake, disabuse of, disenchant, disillusion, open one's eyes, shake up, undeceive, wake, waken), görmesini sağlamak (awake smb. to smth., disabuse of, waken). (various references) звільняти від ілюзій. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "disabuse": disabused, disabuses. (additional references) | |
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"Disabuse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dipabase, disabase, diseuse, dissabuse, drizabone, Filabusi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "disabuse" (pronounced di'subyuw"s or di'subyuw"z) |
| 5 | -u b y uw" s | abuse. |
| 3 | -y uw" s | diffuse, disuse, excuse, misuse, profuse, reuse, use. |
| 5 | -u b y uw" z | abuse. |
| 3 | -y uw" z | accuse, amuse, bemuse, confuse, cues, defuse, diffuse, ewes, excuse, fuse, Hews, hues, infuse, miscues, misuse, muse, overuse, pews, queues, recuse, refuse, reuse, reviews, revues, skews, spews, suffuse, transfuse, use, views. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: subideas. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-i-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: biassed, subidea, subside. | |
-2 letters: abides, abused, abuses, adieus, asides, biased, biases, busied, busies, bussed, daises, dassie, daubes, disuse, issued, subsea. | |
-3 letters: abide, abuse, adieu, aides, aside, assed, based, bases, basis, bassi, bauds, beads, beaus, bides, bises, bused, buses, daube, daubs, ideas, isbas, issue, sabed, sabes, sades, sadis, saids, sides, subas. | |
-4 letters: abed, aide, aids. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-i-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: disabused, disabuses. | |
+3 letters: absurdities, discussable, husbandries, subacidness, subdialects, subheadings, submediants. | |
+4 letters: disturbances, subordinates, subsidiaries, suburbanised, unbiasedness, undesirables. | |
+5 letters: disambiguates, rhabdoviruses, subacidnesses, subclassified, subinfeudates, substantiated, unestablished. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 61 62 75 73 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... .- -... ..- ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01100001 01100010 01110101 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s a b u s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0061 0062 0075 0073 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3875856768878571 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, الألبانية, الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | arabishte, العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, arabo, arabic, арабский, arapski, árabe, arabisk, าษาหรืออักขระอาหรับ, เกี่ยวกับอาระเบีย, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, البلغارية, بلغاري, български, български език, българин, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | frëngjishte, frëng, franceze, اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, צרפתית, צרפתי, francia, francese, francês, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | gjerman, ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, 'רמ ית, 'רמ י, német, tedesco, alemão, neamţ, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, greco, grego, greacã, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Hebrew | אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק | hebraishte, اليهودية, اللغة العبرية, يهودي, عبري, العبرية, иврит, староеврейски език, древен жител на юдея, юдейски, израилтянин, евреин, староеврейски, юдей, hébreu, hebräisch, Hebräer, εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברי, עברית, zsidó, héber, izraelita, ebreo, ebraico, hebreu, hebraico, limba ebraicã, izraelit, evreu, evreiesc, ebraic, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский, hibru, hebreo, jude, hebreiska, hebreisk, ชาวฮิบรู (ปัจจุบันคือประเทศอิสราเอลและปาเลสไตน์), าษาฮิบรู (ปัจจุบันคือประเทศอิสราเอลและปาเลสไตน์), musevi, ibranice, ibrani, іудей, іврит, старо"врейська мова, старо"врейський, "врейський, "врей |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, италиански език, италиански, италианец, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, איטלקית, איטלקי, olasz, italiano, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | rumun, румънски език, румънски, румънец, Roumain, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, rumeno, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski, rumano, rumänsk, румунський, румунка, румунська мова, румун |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, russo, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | serbokroatisch, servo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanjoll, اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, spagnolo, espanhol, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | suedez, اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | Thaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, tailandês, tailandés, thailändare, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова |
Ukranian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, א 'לית, angol, inglese, inglês, englezesc, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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