disprove
verb (used with object)
to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate.
had disproved
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past perfectof disprove.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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It had started kicking in that he had won and had disproved the 98 percent who said he would never win another major again.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 24, 2020
The possibility that science could, and in fact already had, disproved claims made in the Bible laid the foundation for a whole new approach to knowledge that threatened a permanent break with a religiously-founded paradigm.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
He had obtained a version of it — how, he wouldn’t say — and, having now subjected it to the ever-probing Defcon crowds, had disproved the company’s claims.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2018
He told them a story--a morality play, actually--wherein a "generation of self-seekers" on the "mad chase of evanescent profits" had disproved the existence of a benignly self-correcting business cycle.
From Time Magazine Archive
He saw that the dog’s cunning had disproved his conjectures.
From The Mysterious Island by Stephen W. White
