confuted
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confutes, 3rd person singular present; confuted, past participle; confuting, present participle; confuted, past tense;
/kənˈfyo͞ot/,
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confutes, 3rd person singular present; confuted, past participle; confuting, present participle; confuted, past tense;
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Prove (a person or an assertion) to be wrong
- - restorers who sought to confute this view were accused of ignorance
Web Definitions:
- (confutation) the speech act of refuting conclusively
- (confute) disprove: prove to be false; "The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories"
- In informal logic an objection (also called expostulation or refutation), is a reason arguing against a premise, lemma or main contention. An objection to an objection is known as a rebuttal.
- (confute) To disprove or refute; to show something to be false or someone to be wrong