Usually means: Prove that a belief is false.
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  1. disconfirm: Merriam-Webster
  2. disconfirm: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disconfirm: Collins English Dictionary
  4. disconfirm: Wordnik
  5. disconfirm: Wiktionary
  6. disconfirm: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. disconfirm: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. disconfirm: Dictionary.com
  9. disconfirm: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disconfirm: Medical dictionary

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  1. disconfirm: Urban Dictionary

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To establish the falsity of a claim or belief; to show or to tend to show that a theory or hypothesis is not valid.

Similar:
invalidating, negative, unsupportive, confute, disprove, refute, unsubstantiate, self-refute, disverify, disproove, more...

Opposite:
confirm, validate, verify

Types:
disprove, contradict, refute, rebuke, rebut, more...

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Similar:
invalidating, negative, unsupportive, confute, disprove, refute, unsubstantiate, self-refute, disverify, disproove, more...

Opposite:
confirm, validate, verify

Types:
disprove, contradict, refute, rebuke, rebut, more...



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