Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: refute
IPA transcription: [ɹɪfj'ut]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: refute, rebut
    Meaning: overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof; "The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments"
  • Synonyms: refute, rebut, controvert
    Meaning: prove to be false or incorrect
Usage examples
  • Why, sir, the very acts which they passed at the time refute it.
  • All the alchymists were in arms immediately, to refute this formidable antagonist.
  • Here again we shall meet statistics with counter-statistics to refute unjust declarations.
  • However, in order to explain more fully, I will refute the arguments of my adversaries, which all start from the following points:----
  • Scores of Congressmen, anxious to refute the idea that the indomitable picket had had anything to do with their action, revealed naively how surely it had.
  • Systematic advance in invention and discovery began when men recognized that they could utilize doubt for purposes of inquiry by forming conjectures to guide action in tentative explorations, whose development would confirm, refute, or modify the guiding conjecture.