de-bamˈboozle, v.
[f. de- II. 1 + bamboozle v.]
trans. To undeceive, disabuse.
| 1919 J. M. Keynes Econ. Conseq. of Peace (1920) iii. 50 It was harder to de-bamboozle this old Presbyterian than it had been to bamboozle him. 1921 Sat. Westm. Gaz. 12 Feb. 18/2 Even with such an account before them, it is doubtful whether they [sc. visitors to Russia] will ever be ‘de-bamboozled’. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Jan. 54/5 Our rationalists and our materialistic demagogues alike, having found it relatively easy to debamboozle the masses of belief in God, love of neighbours, reason, etcetera, now find it extremely difficult to bamboozle them into believing or hoping anything. |