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Oppugn

//əˈpjuːn// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To contradict or controvert; to oppose; to challenge or question the truth or validity of a given statement. rare, transitive

    "If nothing can oppugne love, And virtue invious ways can prove, What may not he confide to do That brings both love and virtue too?"

  2. 2
    challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of wordnet

Etymology

From Middle French oppugner Latin oppugno (“fight against, to attack, assail, assault, storm, besiege, war with”).

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