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Another word for disprove

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Verb

  1. To prove or show to be false

    See also:

    affirm

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Another word for disprove

Verb
  1. See also:

    refute

    deny

Synonym Study

  • Rebut stresses formality in refuting an argument, such as is observed in debate, court procedure, etc.
  • Controvert implies a disputing or denying of statements, arguments, etc. in an endeavor to refute them
  • Confute suggests the overwhelming or silencing of a person by argument, proof, or rhetorical force
  • Refute implies a more thorough assembly of evidence and a more careful development of argument, hence suggests conclusiveness of proof
  • Disprove implies the presenting of evidence or reasoned arguments that demonstrate an assertion or belief to be false or erroneous
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Sentence Examples

  • In the past, a scientist began with a surmise or hunch and began gathering data to prove or disprove it.

  • 21, which he would be glad to disprove as at least exaggerated (ib.

  • The old theory that referred this approval entirely to self-love, is, he holds, easy to disprove by " crucial experiments " on the play of our moral sentiments; rejecting this, he finds the required explanation in the sympathetic pleasure that attends our perception of the conduciveness of virtue to the interests of human beings other than ourselves.

  • They spent their energy in attacking Plato and Aristotle, and hence earned the opprobrious epithet of Eristic. They used their dialectic subtlety to disprove the possibility of motion and decay; unity is the negation of change, increase and decrease, birth and death.

  • The sculptor Pheidias was prosecuted on two vexatious charges (probably in 433), and before he could disprove the second he died under arrest.

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