To cause someone to lose an idealized or misleadingly favorable belief about someone or something.
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Words that belong together
- disillusion a supporter
- disillusion someone about
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The recovered letters disillusioned the supporter about the movement’s internal conduct.
Experience disillusioned her without removing every reason to continue the work.
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Word forms
- Base
- disillusion
- Past tense
- disillusioned
- Past participle
- disillusioned
- Present participle
- disillusioning
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- disillusion
- Present continuous
- am/is/are disillusioning
- Present perfect
- have/has disillusioned
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been disillusioning
- Past
- disillusioned
- Past continuous
- was/were disillusioning
- Past perfect
- had disillusioned
- Past perfect continuous
- had been disillusioning
- Future
- will disillusion
- Future continuous
- will be disillusioning
- Future perfect
- will have disillusioned
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been disillusioning
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: disillusion; disillusions; disillusioned; disillusioned; disillusioning Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, narrative analysis, characterization, contrast. Disciplines: literary analysis, prose writing, advanced general English. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: disillusions.
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