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Meaning refute meaning

What does refute mean?

refute

— verb overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments — verb prove to be false or incorrect

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rebut disprove confute deny contradict reject invalidate refuse negate dismiss discredit defeat decline controvert retort oppose argue against withhold throw away strike back spurn shun resend repulse repress relay quash put to silence prove obliterate hit back explode erase dump dispose disclaim discard disavow disallow destroy comply with withstand ward off vomit unsay undo turn down turn traverse thwart

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Simple sentences

The witnesses were able to refute the false testimony of the suspect.
I won't try to refute your theses.
The scientific truth of evolution is so overwhelmingly established, that it is virtually impossible to refute.
The ideologist of nuclear devastation Bertran Rassel promises to refute (once again) materialsm with his newest ideas about the language structure.

Movie subtitles

You can't refute facts.
To show me germs is not to refute these stories, Bob.
Which a counterautopsy will refute, and an expert will annul the previous ones, etc.
I'm not sure that science wouldn't refute you, too.
Did you notice any detail that might refute the official version?
I must confess, I didn't know whether to refute it or give it a round of applause.
I know of no fact which would refute the Commission's conclusion that Lee Oswald was the lone killer.
Your Grace, I refute these allegations utterly.
Well, if so, I'll grant you 24 hours to investigate this matter internally and refute the charges.
In particular those relating to Mr Wickham, which if true, would indeed be grievous, but are wholly without foundation, and which I can only refute by laying before you his connection with my family.
It's easy to claim and impossible to refute.
I won't refute that this woman was practicing the occult,...but what comes out must first go in.
You can't refute that, can you?
Have you, in addition, anything, say, in the order of actual documentation that might refute this one, and in so doing, more compellingly support your claims?
His protests can't refute the mounting evidence.
Debbie, I wanna give you a chance. to refute the allegations that Zack made againstyou.
I refute that.
What have you to say to refute the charge. that you are the murderer of Charles, the late commander of the fleet?
Your honor, tomorrow the prosecution will present a video tape that will not only corroborate every state's witness, but will refute every statement the defendant has made.
In the name of Lord Jesus, we refute you, Satan, and cast you out.
Give me a month and I'll have data that'll refute every bit of information presented here.
You are prepared to refute your work publicly before the Circles of Science?
As to this outrageous accusation, I shall refute it!
I can show you proof that the heart cannot refute.
Scientists think they refute Waldek's theory that life is infinitely variable.
She sides with Korbziski who claims. to refute Aristotle but. she hasn't read either one!
Dr Justice boasted that he could refute my theory.
I refute it.
To refute what you say is not easy.
It's the easiest thing to claim and impossible to refute. That's what makes it a meaningless standard.
Have you, in addition, anything, in the order of actual documentation, that might refute this one, and so more compellingly support your claims?
Yet the looking-glass image was hard to refute.

News and current affairs

The fact is that a number of serious objections exist to the concept of universal human rights, which its defenders need to acknowledge - honestly - if only to refute them.
Crises often refute conventional wisdom, and this one reveals that the underlying strength of the American economy remains impressive.
But Borlaug and our bankers refute that theory.
Science and knowledge are made up not of winners, but of survivors of continuous and systematic efforts to refute.
So intellectual capture is a charge hard to refute.
All these programs refute three widely held myths.
The new observations did not refute the existence of a cosmological term.
Indeed, Egypt's formidably historic task now is to refute the old paradigm according to which the Arab world's only choice is between secular and repressive autocracy or obscurantist and repressive theocracy.
Muslim religious and political leaders have the intellectual capital to refute their misplaced religious convictions, and can repeat sura after sura, hadith after hadith, detailing Islam's rejection of violence and repudiation of the killing of innocents.

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