Although scientists and skeptics have many times managed to debunk conspiracy theories, believers nevertheless maintain an unreasoning attachment to the discredited ideas.
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Debunk
//dɪˈbʌŋk//
Synonyms for "debunk" (34 found)
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Related words (17)
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6 entriesderived from
3 entriesetymologically related_to
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6 entriesTranslations
63 translations across 23 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- فَنَّدَ verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
Armenian
1 entries- մերկացնել verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
Bulgarian
2 entries- изобличавам измама verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- развенчавам verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 揭穿 verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
Czech
4 entries- odhalit podstatu verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- rozkrýt verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- vyvrátit verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- zdiskreditovat verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
Danish
2 entries- afsløre verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- skyde ned verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
Dutch
2 entries- doorprikken verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- ontmaskeren verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
Finnish
3 entries- kumota verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- paljastaa verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- romuttaa verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
French
4 entries- dévoiler verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- jeter l'opprobre sur verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- mettre en pièces verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- réduire à néant verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
Galician
1 entries- desacreditar verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
German
4 entries- bloßlegen verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- demaskieren verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- diskreditieren verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- entlarven verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
Greek
1 entries- αποδόμηση verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
Hungarian
4 entries- eloszlat verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- leleplez verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- lerombol verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- megsemmisít verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
Italian
4 entries- demistificare verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- ridicolizzare verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- sbufalare verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- sbugiardare verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
Korean
2 entries- 밝히다 verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- 폭로하다 verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
Macedonian
2 entries- разобличува verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- разоткрива verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
Māori
1 entries- whakanano verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- diskreditere verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
Polish
1 entries- obalić verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
Portuguese
1 entries- desacreditar verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
Russian
2 entries- развенчивать verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- разоблачать verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
Spanish
4 entries- desacreditar verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- desbaratar verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- desdecir verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- desengañar verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
Ukrainian
2 entries- розві́нчувати verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
- розвінча́ти verb (to discredit or expose the falsehood of something)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
Mr. Ndou says he tries to debunk many of the boys' myths, like a commonly held one that the lubrication on condoms contains worms.
Source: tatoeba (11086663)
Above all, Tom wants to debunk clichés.
Source: tatoeba (12204362)
The explosion story was thoroughly debunked on National Public Radio in November 1999.
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