Usually means: Prove a statement to be false.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. confute: Merriam-Webster
  2. confute: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. confute: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. confute: Collins English Dictionary
  5. confute: Vocabulary.com
  6. confute: Wordnik
  7. confute: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. confute: Wiktionary
  9. confute: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. confute: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. confute: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Confute, confute: Dictionary.com
  13. confute: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Confute: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. confute: Rhymezone
  16. Confute: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. confute: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. confute: FreeDictionary.org
  19. confute: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. confute: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. confute: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. confute: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confute: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (confute)

▸ verb:  (transitive, now rare) To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.

Similar:
disprove, refute, disproove, convince, disconfirm, improve, refel, confound, unsubstantiate, give the lie to, more...

Opposite:
confirm, corroborate, substantiate, corroboration

Types:
refute, more...


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Similar:
disprove, refute, disproove, convince, disconfirm, improve, refel, confound, unsubstantiate, give the lie to, more...

Opposite:
confirm, corroborate, substantiate, corroboration

Types:
refute, more...



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