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[dis-i-loo-zhuhn]

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verb (used with object)

to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.

noun

a freeing or a being freed from illusion or conviction; disenchantment.

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Origin:
1590–1600; dis-¹ + illusion

Related forms

dis·il·lu·sion·ment, noun

dis·il·lu·sive

[dis-i-loo-siv] , adjective

un·dis·il·lu·sioned, adjective

Synonyms
1. disabuse, disenthrall, undeceive, disappoint.

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Example Sentences

Spy fiction falls into two categories: the preposterous and the disillusioned.

Fortunately for my academic career, he became increasingly disillusioned with the scholarly life and left to pursue other work.

Disillusioned investors have turned from shares to housing.

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Spy fiction falls into two categories: the preposterous and the disillusioned.

Fortunately for my academic career, he became increasingly disillusioned with the scholarly life and left to pursue other work.

Disillusioned investors have turned from shares to housing.

Perhaps being beat to the punch on whoopie pies left them disillusioned.

Or the corporate accounting scandals that have left some workers disillusioned.

If you're a disillusioned failure, everyone who reads your comment should know that you're a disillusioned failure.

It is a celebratory work, written by someone who has become disillusioned by what is going on today.

Keith said he wrote the song with a collaborator because he was disillusioned.

I've become quite disillusioned by the whole system.

Both men are disillusioned over what was supposed to be their tightest bond: terrorism.

Those who put their faith in scientists will be sadly disillusioned.

Rightly or wrongly, they have become disillusioned with him.

This, he says, has disillusioned party workers and undermined campaigning.

Even some who helped found the party are disillusioned.

The disillusioned move to other careers as much as to other countries.

Low-ranking paramilitaries have become disillusioned with half-hearted reintegration programmes.

His fictionalised portrait of the artist as a young man is recalled by an older, disillusioned narrator.

Many disillusioned mujahidin say that the parties fail either to supply arms or to achieve political unity.

Hart had grown disillusioned with farming when he felt.

To inspire a disillusioned unemployed father of three to embrace and excel in a new profession, a little more is required:.

She saw them, and to say she was disillusioned is an understatement.

But he became disillusioned and eventually joined the anti-Castro forces.

Little wonder that voters became so disillusioned that they turned to the revolutionaries' rival.

Markson is a scientist working in weapons technology research, but he has grown disillusioned with his employers and the.

Rosengarten had become disillusioned with college teaching and wanted to become a food writer.

He is disillusioned to discover that to racist employers, his sterling service record is almost worthless.

Many students are disillusioned by the reality of graduate school compared to their.

Voters are generally disillusioned with post-communist politics.

At first it is exciting, but soon he finds himself disillusioned by their shallowness.

Iraqis themselves are understandably disillusioned and hostile.

Joseph parishioners bitter, disillusioned and uncertain about the future of their church as well.

Indeed, economic woes provide the third explanation why disillusioned voters preferred him to the centre-left.

The unemployed lose their skills, and disillusioned workers drop out of the.

But voters have grown steadily disillusioned with politics.

Colombians are disillusioned with their political leaders.

The currency-exchange reform and its aftermath have disillusioned people.

Even some of those sitting on the fence have become disillusioned by the government's failure to implement promised changes.

Germans in general are disillusioned with conventional politics.

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disillusioned (ˌdɪsɪˈluːʒənd)

—*adj*
	having lost one's ideals, illusions, or false ideas about someone or something; disenchanted

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Word Origin & History

disillusion

"to free or be freed from illusion," 1851, from dis- + illusion (q.v.). Related: Disillusioned; disillusionment.

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