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refute
/ rɪˈfjuː-; rɪˈfjuːt; ˈrɛfjʊtəbəl; ˌrɛfjʊtəˈbɪlɪtɪ; rɪˌfjuː- /
verb
- tr to prove (a statement, theory, charge, etc) of (a person) to be false or incorrect; disprove
- to deny (a claim, charge, allegation, etc)
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Derived Forms
- refutability, noun
- refutable, adjective
- ˈrefutably, adverb
- reˈfuter, noun
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Other Words From
- re·fut·a·ble [ri-, fyoo, -t, uh, -b, uh, l, ref, -y, uh, -t, uh, -], adjective
- re·fut·er noun
- self-re·fut·ed adjective
- self-re·fut·ing adjective
- un·re·fut·ed adjective
- un·re·fut·ing adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of refute1
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Example Sentences
And no one is better equipped to refute this false equivalence than Mack herself.
Szarkowski responded: “The claim is impossible to refute, and in fact not easy to understand.”
This would seem to refute the new report that the captain alone would have been able to disable all the systems.
But this is all ‘a work in progress’… [that] we are trying to confirm or refute.
Which is why we need the most up-to-date science—and for government entities to refute “abortion-inducing” misnomers.
And Diotti, remembering Mildreds words, could not refute the old mans statements.
I shall make a series of statements, and give you opportunity to refute them either in part or in toto.
But it is easy to refute all these useless reasonings and to show the falsity of all these evidences.
(This fact alone is sufficient to refute the opinion that confuses time with that which is movable).
This is the great point which the champions of the "bogey" theory are most anxious to refute.
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