No, it isn’t. The expression you have in mind is ‘disabuse someone of something’. When you attempt to ‘disabuse someone of something’, you try to tell the person that the thing he believes in is not true. You are trying to persuade him that he is mistaken.
*My new boss thinks he’s doing a great job. I’m planning to disabuse him of that notion.
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