- disprove as a verb:
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disprove
verb
1 disprove
Prove to be false:
— The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories.
synonym: confute.
Roget 479: confute, refute, disprove; parry, negative, controvert, rebut, confound, disconfirm, redargue†, expose, show the fallacy of, defeat; ... show more
Dutch: weerleggen
Moby thesaurus: abjure, assert the contrary, belie, blow sky-high, blow up, break, confound, confute, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, cross, deflate, demolish, deny, destroy, disaffirm, disallow ... show more.
disproved
Moby thesaurus: belied, confounded, confuted, deflated, denied, discarded, discredited, dismissed, disputed, exploded, exposed, impugned, invalidated, negated, negatived, overthrown, overturned, punctured, refuted, rejected ... show more.
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