Contradict

//ˌkɒn.tɹəˈdɪkt// verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To deny the truth or validity of (a statement or statements).

    "His testimony contradicts hers."

  2. 2
    prove negative; show to be false wordnet
  3. 3
    To oppose (a person) by denying the truth or pertinence of a given statement.

    "Everything he says contradicts me."

  4. 4
    be resistant to wordnet
  5. 5
    To be contrary to (something).

    "Now no truth can contradict any truth; desirous therefore they were to be taught, how bothe might stand together, that which they knew could not be false, because Christ spake it; and this which to them did seeme true, onely because the Scribes had said it."

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  1. 6
    deny the truth of wordnet
  2. 7
    To say things that conflict with each other. reflexive

    "The prime minister contradicted herself during her speech."

  3. 8
    be in contradiction with wordnet
  4. 9
    To give an order contrary to (another order or wish), oppose (something). obsolete

    "[…] when was the hour I ever contradicted your desire, Or made it not mine too?"

  5. 10
    To give an order contrary to one given by (another person), oppose or resist (someone). obsolete

    "Beseemes it thee to contradict thy king? […] I will haue Gaueston, and you shall know, What danger tis to stand against your king."

  6. 11
    To speak against; to forbid. obsolete

    "[…] magic hath been publicly professed in former times, in Salamanca, Cracovia, and other places, though after censured by several universities, and now generally contradicted, though practised by some still […]."

Etymology

Derived from Latin contrādictus (“contradicted”), the past participle of contrādīcō (“speak against”) (originally two words).

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