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Another word for refute

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refute

v.

disprove, confute, show up, rebut, explode, expose, prove false, overthrow, show the weakness in, discredit, provide refutation for, argue against, oppose, tear down, demolish, squelch, take a stand against, invalidate, cancel, cancel out, belie, give the lie to, repudiate, contradict, negate, dispute, contravene, parry, contend, debate, disclaim, convict, reply to, quash, crush, gainsay, dispose of, knock holes in*, not leave a leg to stand on*; see also answer 3, confute, deny.

Antonyms support*, uphold, stand by. See syn. study at disprove.disprove.

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Another word for refute

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To prove or show to be false:

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

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His intellect was logical in the highest degree; he was clear and precise, an enemy of loose reasoning, and quick to refute prevailing fallacies.
The course of human history is regarded by those writers who are most concerned to refute Judaism as a progressive divine education.
To see the absurdity of the second paradox of relativity is easier than to refute it.
We assume that the rite employed was serious and Anglican may reverent, and there is no longer any need to refute the fable of a ludicrous consecration at the "Nag's Head " tavern.
Arminius, fresh from Geneva, familiar with the dialectics of Beza, appeared to many the man able to speak the needed word, and so, in 1589, he was simultaneously invited by the ecclesiastical court of Amsterdam to refute Coornhert, and by Martin Lydius, professor at Franeker, to combat the two infralapsarian ministers of Delft.

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