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disillusion
noun
The act or process of disenchanting or freeing from a false belief.
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'disillusion' is an appropriate word that is often used in written English.
It is a verb that means to disappoint someone by dispelling their illusions or false beliefs. Example sentence: After they broke up, he was left feeling disillusioned and heartbroken.
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All My Sons, the story of a war hero who comes home to find that his father is a munitions racketeer, reflected the disillusion of postwar America.
Bayer's disillusion was so strong that Holzhäuser even offered up the player for a quick-fire sale four months before the end of his contract.
My disillusion with Green party politics began soon after trying to make sense of its manifesto in relation to real life as it was, and not Narnia.
If the travelling contingent was admirable, the vast expanses of empty seats elsewhere merely highlighted disillusion within the Hibs following.
And suddenly, and I'm the first to admit that it was more by accident than by design, we had – we were – changing everything, at last: we were releasing this huge pent-up frustration… at the absence of choice, this huge disillusion at the ding-dong two-party stuff".
At a time of doubt and disillusion, her unswerving belief in her own convictions proved to be her most important characteristic.
Across Europe disillusion with the EU is at an all-time high: in 2007 52% of the public said it has a positive image of the EU; by 2013 the share had collapsed to 30%.
Mr Nano seemed better placed to restore some order after the chaos provoked by the collapse of several pyramid investment schemes, in which many Albanians lost their savings.But relief is already being followed by disillusion.
Yet he cannot hide his disillusion with a boss who comes across as a detached observer of his own foreign policy.
The most pressing of these, in the European country that has supplied the most jihadists to the so-called Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria, is understanding the path that takes young citizens from disillusion to terror.Like other European countries struggling with high unemployment, France is not short of disaffected youths and petty criminals among whom jihadist recruiters have often thrived.
Such was the easterners' disillusion with the central government's failure to fill the vacuum that some of their cars began to sport the black flag of Barqa, or Cyrenaica, Libya's once-separate eastern part.Not everyone feels so sure salvation has come.
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