Results for refute

Definitions of refute:

part of speech: verb transitive

To repel: to oppose: to disprove.

part of speech: verb transitive

To prove to be false or wrong; to overthrow by argument or proof; disprove.

Usage examples for refute:

• Why, you know, as you're here to refute them, Isabel, he teased, perhaps it's the best place. "A Hazard of New Fortunes", William Dean Howells

• I will now relate some of the circumstances which occurred on this journey, and are not generally known to the public, and at the same time take advantage of the opportunity to refute other assertions similar to those I have just mentioned, and which I have read with surprise, sometimes mixed with indignation, in the Contemporary Memoirs. "The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte", Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

• It would have been base to acknowledge and impolite to refute the claim. "Project Gutenberg History of The Netherlands, 1555-1623, Complete", John Lothrop Motley

• It is said to have cost seventy thousand dollars, and was built by Count Frederick of Tyrol, who was called " The Count of the Empty Pockets," to refute his nickname. "Abroad with the Jimmies", Lilian Bell