confute
IPA: kʌnfjˈut
verb
- (transitive, now rare) To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.
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Examples of "confute" in Sentences
- Nobody can confute the truth.
- The scholar confuted the theory.
- The evidence confuted the argument.
- They did not confute what they were told.
- The men could never confute what He said.
- He could not confute what he felt towards her.
- They would not be able to confute what is evident.
- He could not confute what was written in the Bible.
- Do a Google search and confirm or confute the change.
- To confute his detractors he now wrote the last of the series, entitled Envy.
- Neither an act of God nor a piece of journalism will vindicate Willingham or confute the death penalty.
- But Israel's labor and culture worlds and overall the most democratic political faction are trying to make every effort to confute these accusations.
- The author also gives the Hindustani word as 'kaelkur-hin', which seems to be intended for _qâil kareñ_, or in rustic form _karahiñ_, meaning 'confute'.
- As for De Casseres -- if ever I get back to New York, equipped as I now am, I shall confute him with the same ease that he has confuted all the schools.
- The golfer's regard of Elin, 29, also seemed to confute the grumpy grousing he made about his marriage bed, complaining which "once we get married, the sex stops," according to sources.
- So now is the moment for the President-elect to confute his critics, and demonstrate that he has the toughness needed to deal with the Islamofascist threat, no matter who its agents may be.
- Fie upon thee! man needs should have some certain test set up to try his friends, some touchstone of their hearts, to know each friend whether he be true or false; all men should have two voices, one the voice of honesty, expediency's the other, so would honesty confute its knavish opposite, and then we could not be deceived.
- In the article on Collins in Birch's Dictionary, Birch notes that his “large and curious [library] was open to all men of letters, to whom he readily communicated all the lights and assistance in his power, and even furnished his antagonists with books to confute himself, and directed them how to give their arguments all the force of which they were capable” (Birch, quoted in Berman, 1975).