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confute - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'confute' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Confute [ v. t.]
- To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.

Meaning of 'confute' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . confute [ v]
Meaning (1):
- prove to be false
Example in sentence:
  • The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories

Nearby Words:

con con- conacre conarium conation conative conatus concamerate concameration concatenate

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