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verb (used with object), -fut·ed, -fut·ing.
1.
to prove to be false, invalid, or defective; disprove: to confute an argument.
2.
to prove (a person) to be wrong by argument or proof: to confute one's opponent.
3.
Obsolete. to bring to naught; confound.
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confute
1529, from L. confutare "disprove, restrain, silence," from com- intensive prefix + *futare "to beat," from PIE base *bhau-t, *bhu-t "to strike, beat."
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