Definition of "disabusing" [disabusing]

• Present participle of disabuse. (verb)

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• "They keep him very much in the background, I think, with the idea of disabusing the popular mind of the idea that this is "his war.""
• ""My uncle sympathized with him and, with the idea of disabusing him of his folly, somehow, while visiting him, saw Marcia."
• "Mr. Lucas launches into a brisk dissertation on the work of colleagues—Martin Feldstein, Michael Boskin, others—whom he credits with disabusing him and fellow economists of a youthful assumption that taxes have little effect on the overall amount of capital in society."