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Another word for disprove

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disprove

v.

prove false, discredit, controvert, refute, confute, rebut, throw out, set aside, find unfounded, find fault in, point out the weakness of, invalidate, weaken, negate, overthrow, tear down, confound, expose, puncture, cut the ground from under*, blow up*, poke holes in*; see also deny, refute.

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

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verb

To prove or show to be false:

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

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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.
For the paradox of predication, which he had used to disprove the existence of plurality, was virtually a denial of all speech and all thought, and thus led to a more comprehensive scepticism than that which sprang from the contemporary theories of sensation.
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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