UNDECEIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does undeceive mean? 

• UNDECEIVE (verb)
  The verb UNDECEIVE has 1 sense:

1. free from deception or illusion

  Familiarity information: UNDECEIVE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNDECEIVE (verb)

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 

"I have very often wished to undeceive yourself and my mother," added Elinor; "and once or twice I have attempted it;—but without betraying my trust, I never could have convinced you."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The old man paused and then continued, ‘If you will unreservedly confide to me the particulars of your tale, I perhaps may be of use in undeceiving them.’

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

On the contrary, every particular relative to his sister was meant to be kept as much as possible to myself; and if I endeavour to undeceive people as to the rest of his conduct, who will believe me?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

" During the meal she was quiet and cool: but I could not undeceive her then. I must wait for my master to give explanations; and so must she. I ate what I could, and then I hastened upstairs. I met Adele leaving the schoolroom.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I am undeceived in time!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

These false informations, which I afterwards came to the knowledge of by an accident not proper to mention, made the treasurer show his lady for some time an ill countenance, and me a worse; and although he was at last undeceived and reconciled to her, yet I lost all credit with him, and found my interest decline very fast with the emperor himself, who was, indeed, too much governed by that favourite.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Why, there's Copperfield, mother, he angrily retorted, pointing his lean finger at me, against whom all his animosity was levelled, as the prime mover in the discovery; and I did not undeceive him; there's Copperfield, would have given you a hundred pound to say less than you've blurted out!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That is indeed unfortunate; but if you are really blameless, cannot you undeceive them?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

No time was to be lost in undeceiving her, in making her acquainted with the real truth, and in endeavouring to bring her to hear it talked of by others, without betraying that she felt any uneasiness for her sister, or any resentment against Edward.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Pray undeceive him as soon as you can, and tell him I beg his pardon—that is—I do not know what I ought to say—but make him understand what I mean, in the properest way.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)