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Another word for confute

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confute

v.

disprove, defeat, overwhelm, overcome, silence, expose, bring to naught, rebut, controvert, parry, negate, vanquish, demolish, invalidate, answer conclusively, overturn, prove to be wrong, set aside, overcome in debate, upset, subvert, quash, oppugn, contradict, argue down, get the better of, clinch an argument, discredit, show up*, shut up*, not leave a leg to stand on*, cut the ground from under one's feet*, put down*; see also deny, oppose 1, refute.

Antonyms prove, verify*, confirm. See syn. study at disprove.disprove.

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Another word for confute

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To prove or show to be false:

belie, discredit, disprove, rebut, refute. See affirm

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Both of these confessions were drawn up to confute the teaching of a remarkable man who had been patriarch of Constantinople, Cyril Lucar.
Schliemann was on several occasions in England, in 1883 to receive honours from the great universities, and in 1886 to confute, at a special gathering of the Hellenic Society, the assertion of Stillman and Penrose that the Tirynthian palace was posterior to the Christian era.
He was one of the disputants selected to confute the Romanists at the conference of Westminster after Easter 1J59; he was select preacher at St Paul's cross on the 15th of June; and in the autumn was engaged as one of the royal visitors of the western counties.
Albertus Magnus and St Thomas devote special treatises to an examination of the Averroist theory of the unity of intellect, which they labour to confute in order to establish the orthodoxy of Aristotle.
This was the eccentric Reginald Pecock of Chichester, who, while setting himself to confute Lollard controversialists, lapsed into heresy by setting reason above authority.

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