confute
werkwoord
1 confute
Prove to be false.
synoniem: disprove.
Roget 479:
confute,
refute,
disprove;
parry,
negative,
controvert,
rebut,
confound,
disconfirm,
redargue†,
expose,
show the fallacy of,
defeat;
demolish,
break
etc.
(destroy)
162;
overthrow,
overturn scatter to the winds,
explode,
invalidate;
silence;
put to silence,
reduce to silence;
clinch an argument,
clinch a question;
give one a setdown†,
stop the mouth,
shut up;
have,
have on the hip.
not leave a leg to stand on,
cut the ground from under one's feet.
be confuted
&c.;
fail;
expose one's weak point,
show one's weak point.
counter evidence
etc.
468.
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