refute

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"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."

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  1. transitive verb To prove to be false or erroneous; overthrow by argument or proof: refute testimony.
  2. transitive verb To deny the accuracy or truth of: refuted the results of the poll.

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  • Special Olympians would refute -- and to his "full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts." —  Accuracy In Media
  • I work in the field of suicide prevention, and something struck me about this piece: although Bernard Villehuchet's response to his brother's suicide is noteworthy, Bloomberg and HuffPo didn't refute -- or at least balance -- the skewed logic of suicide as a means to honor. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Griffin's analysis seems hard if not impossible to refute, and represents the type of (new) leadership now needed. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • The Raji story doesn't have that benefit because it is too easy to refute, and because any team that might have had interest in him has already vetted him down to the bone marrow and a yes or no decision by now. —  Breaking News: CBS News
  • If you lack the mental capacity and cannot take the time to read anything you'd like to refute, then don't take the time to make a comment that is probably already addressed in this post.
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  1. Latin refūtāre; see bhau- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French refuter, refute, confute, French réfuter =Spanish Portuguese refutar =Italian rifutare, refutare, from Latin refutare, check, drive, back, repress, repel, rebut, etc., from re- + futare as in confutare, confute: see confute.
 

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