disabused

[dis-uh-byooz]

dis·a·buse

[dis-uh-byooz]
verb (used with object), dis·a·bused, dis·a·bus·ing.
to free (a person) from deception or error.

Origin:
1605–15; < French désabuser. See dis-1, abuse

dis·a·bus·al, noun
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Disabused is always a great word to know.
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disabused

adjective
freed of a mistaken or misguided notion; "some people are still not disabused of the old idea that the universe revolves around the Earth" 
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