DISABUSING Synonyms

• the exposure of falseness or pretensions

• tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance

• enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement

• to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors)

• a speech act that conveys information

• putting on display for the first time

• the act of beginning something new

• free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth

• correct in opinion or judgment

• socially right or correct

• in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure

• make right or correct

• make reparations or amends for

• censure severely

• adjust for

• punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience

• fall in value

• alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard

• treat a defect

• prove to be false

• give an education to

• create by training and teaching

• teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

• the act of upsetting something

• an improbable and unexpected victory

• turn from an upright or normal position

• cause to overturn from an upright or normal position

• rule against

• cause the downfall of; of rulers

• cancel officially

• change radically

• determine the length of

• reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities

• bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one

• set straight or right

• make right or correct

• convert into direct current

• free from deception or illusion