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UNDECEIVE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they undeceive ... he / she / it undeceives
Past simple: undeceived
Past participle: undeceived
-ing form: undeceiving
Sense 1
Meaning:
Free from deception or illusion
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "undeceive" is one way to...):
inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Antonym:
deceive (cause someone to believe an untruth)
Context examples:
He said, it was common, when two Yahoos discovered such a stone in a field, and were contending which of them should be the proprietor, a third would take the advantage, and carry it away from them both; which my master would needs contend to have some kind of resemblance with our suits at law; wherein I thought it for our credit not to undeceive him; since the decision he mentioned was much more equitable than many decrees among us; because the plaintiff and defendant there lost nothing beside the stone they contended for: whereas our courts of equity would never have dismissed the cause, while either of them had any thing left.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
