confute

• While I don't mean to confute or belittle any of the foregoing utterances of yours, but I have two questions to you, in this regard, are: - —  Kafila
• "If I am sincere with myself (but I fear one lies more to one's self than to anyone else), every page should confute, refute, and utterly abjure its predecessor." —  NPR Topics: News
• More than this, we propose at the same time and by the same evidence to forever disprove, confute, and silence any and every aspersion and insinuation which has been brought against the character of the proponent, Harold Scott Mainwaring; and in doing this, we shall at last lift the veil which, for the past five months, has hung over the Fair Oaks tragedy Mr. Sutherland paused to allow the tremendous excitement produced by his words to subside; then turning, he addressed himself to the judge Your honor, I have to request permission of the court to depart in a slight degree from the usual custom. —  That Mainwaring Affair
• But these examples, so far from confirming, serve rather to confute, the theory in whose support they are adduced. —  Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
• There was just enough truth in his words to make them hard to confute, and, anyway, I was not in the mood for that sort of argument. —  Raw Gold A Novel

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