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confute
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb confute has 1 sense
- confute(v = verb.cognition) disprove - prove to be false; "The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories" is one way to contradict, negate
Derived forms noun confutation2, noun confutation1, adjective confutative1, noun confuter1
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CIDE DICTIONARY
confute, v. t. [L. confutare to chek (a boiling liquid), to repress, confute; con- + a root seen in futis a water vessel), prob. akin to fundere to pour: cf. F. confuter. See Fuse to melt.].
To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence. [1913 Webster]
"Satan stood . . . confuted and convinced
Of his weak arguing fallacious drift." [1913 Webster]
Of his weak arguing fallacious drift." [1913 Webster]
"No man's error can be confuted who doth not . . . grant some true principle that contradicts his error."
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"I confute a good profession with a bad conversation."
Syn. -- To disprove; overthrow; sed aside; refute; oppugn.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
confute, v.tr.
1 prove (a person) to be in error.
2 prove (an argument) to be false.
1 prove (a person) to be in error.
2 prove (an argument) to be false.
Derivative
confutation n.
Etymology
L confutare restrain
THESAURUS
confute
answer, answer conclusively, antagonize, argue down, be antipathetic, be inimical, beat against, break, clash, collide, conflict, conflict with, confound, contradict, contrapose, contravene, controvert, counter, counteract, counterattack, countercharge, counterclaim, counterpose, countervail, counterwork, cross, crush, defeat, demolish, deny, disconfirm, dismiss, dispose of, evert, finish, floor, go against, go counter to, interfere with, lock horns, make a rebuttal, meet head-on, militate against, nonplus, oppose, oppugn, overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, parry, put to silence, rebut, reduce to silence, refute, rejoin, resist, run against, run counter to, settle, shut up, silence, smash all opposition, squash, squelch, subvert, surrebut, surrejoin, swim upstream, undermine, upset, work againstROGET THESAURUS
confute
Confutation
VB confute, refute, disprove, parry, negative, controvert, rebut, confound, disconfirm, redargue, expose, show the fallacy of, defeat, demolish, break, 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, fail, expose one's weak point, show one's weak point, counter evidence.
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