refute
verb (used with object)
to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge.
had refuted
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past perfectof refute.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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After UK police had refuted the false information he had shared, Mr Asif deleted the posts and issued an apology on Channel3now for sharing the news, police said.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2024
His family had refuted the defection claims, filing a lawsuit calling for the disclosure of government records.
From Reuters ● Jun. 29, 2022
Bishop William T. McGrattan, the vice president of the Canadian Conference of Bishops, said Friday afternoon that Canadian bishops had refuted the doctrine, and in 2016 offered a pastoral letter denouncing it.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
And Leland Keyser is a high school friend of Ford's who Kavanaugh claimed had refuted Ford's story, even though this is not precisely accurate.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2018
He had refuted the Puritans, as he believed, with much Latin and some Greek.
From The Leading Facts of English History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery
