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Confute

//kənˈfjuːt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute. archaic, transitive

    "Procatalepsis is a forme of speech by which the Orator perceiving aforehand what might be objected against him, and hurt him, doth confute it before it be spoken […]."

  2. 2
    prove to be false wordnet

Etymology

From Middle French confuter, from Latin confūtō.

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