Confute
21confute — v disprove, refute, rebut, invalidate, bring to naught; expose, show up, explode, scatter to the winds, discredit; belie, contradict, confound, controvert, gainsay, dispute; overthrow, subvert, overcome, defeat, upset, get the better of; squelch …
22confute — con·fute …
23confute — v.t. prove to be wrong; overcome in argument. ♦ confutation, n …
24confute — /kanfyuwt/ To prove to be false, defective, or invalid …
25confute — /kanfyuwt/ To prove to be false, defective, or invalid …
26confute — see BEAT …
27confute — v.tr. 1 prove (a person) to be in error. 2 prove (an argument) to be false. Derivatives: confutation n. Etymology: L confutare restrain …
28refute, confute, rebut — McGuinness vehemently refuted all such allegations (Chicago Tribune). Refute means to show conclusively that an allegation is wrong. It does not mean simply to dispute or deny a contention, as was evidently intended in the example. Confute… …
29refute, confute, rebut — McGuinness vehemently refuted all such allegations (Chicago Tribune). Refute means to show conclusively that an allegation is wrong. It does not mean simply to dispute or deny a contention, as was evidently intended in the example. Confute… …
30refute, confute, rebut — McGuinness vehemently refuted all such allegations (Chicago Tribune). Refute means to show conclusively that an allegation is wrong. It does not mean simply to dispute or deny a contention, as was evidently intended in the example. Confute… …