refute
verb (used with object), re·fut·ed, re·fut·ing.
Origin of refute
Synonyms for refute
Related Words for refute
repudiate, contradict, expose, counter, quash, oppose, disprove, squelch, rebut, invalidate, negate, cancel, debate, contend, top, crush, overthrow, convict, dispute, contraveneExamples from the Web for refute
Contemporary Examples of refute
And no one is better equipped to refute this false equivalence than Mack herself.
Szarkowski responded: “The claim is impossible to refute, and in fact not easy to understand.”
This would seem to refute the new report that the captain alone would have been able to disable all the systems.
But this is all ‘a work in progress’… [that] we are trying to confirm or refute.
Which is why we need the most up-to-date science—and for government entities to refute “abortion-inducing” misnomers.
Historical Examples of refute
Unconsciously his whole practice began to refute his theories.
Alice, or The Mysteries, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton
Traditions these which I mean not either to confirm with arguments of my own or to refute.
Tacitus on GermanyTacitus
And his sense of truth did not permit him to try to refute her accusation.
A Spirit in PrisonRobert Hichens
I shall go back and refute that common scoffer, that caster of doubts.
The Burning SpearJohn Galsworthy
Neither did I tell you just now to refute me, said Dionysodorus; for how can I tell you to do that which is not?
EuthydemusPlato