"Refute" is a word in ENGLISH
To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence, or
countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute;
as, to refute arguments; to refute testimony; to refute opinions or
theories; to refute a disputant.
... My mother, daroga, my poor, unhappy mother would never... let me kiss her... She used to run away... and throw me my mask!... Nor any other woman... ever, ever!... Ah, you can understand, my happiness was so great, I cried. And fell at her feet, crying... and I kissed her feet... her little feet... crying. You're crying, too, daroga... and she cried also... the angel cried!...
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Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's refutative dialogues.
Read the complete definitionTo respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute.
Read the complete definitionCapable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.
Read the complete definitionTo make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.
Read the complete definitionThe act or process of confuting; refutation.
Read the complete definitionTo overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.
Read the complete definitionTo prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.
Read the complete definitionCapable of being confuted and disproved by argument; refutable.
Read the complete definitionDirect; proving directly; -- applied to reasoning, and opposed to elenchtic or refutative.
Read the complete definitionTo prove or to refute by proof; to clear (one's self).
Read the complete definitionThe act of disaffirming; negation; refutation.
Read the complete definitionA proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement.
Read the complete definitionCapable of being disproved or refuted.
Read the complete definitionTo prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.
Read the complete definitionTo refute; to prove to be false or erroneous; not necessarily by mere denial, but by affirmative evidence to the …
Read the complete definitionThat part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces of refutes an antagonist; a refutation.
Read the complete definitionServing to refute; refutative; -- applied to indirect modes of proof, and opposed to deictic.
Read the complete definitionA figure in which several things are mentioned that seem to make against the argument, or in favor of the …
Read the complete definitionTo disprove or make void; to refute.
Read the complete definitionUnanswerable; irrefutable; that can not be refuted or convinced; as, an invulnerable argument.
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