disprove
verb (used with object)
to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate.
disproval
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a word derived from
disprove.
Example Sentences
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It would need the Chinese government’s approval and China-run media outlets have already expressed their disproval.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2020
His speech comes as Congress prepares to vote its approval or disproval of the agreement.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2015
Still, there is neither proof nor disproval of this surmise extant.
From Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
But she had failed to learn of the disproval of Dick Beckworth’s reported death.
From The Heart of Canyon Pass by Thomas K. Holmes
From that hour to this, there has been no disproval of the truth of these charges or of the righteousness of the resistance to which our forefathers resorted.
From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine
