Synonyms for refute
rɪˈfyutre·fute

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1. refuteverb

   Synonyms:
   deny, repudiate, disprove, reject, gainsay

   Antonyms:
   embrace, accept, demonstrate, prove

2. refuteverb

   To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.

   Synonyms:
   repudiate, reject, deny, gainsay, disprove

   Antonyms:
   demonstrate, prove, accept, embrace

3. refuteverb

   To deny the truth or correctness of (something).

   Synonyms:
   deny, gainsay, disprove, repudiate, reject

   Antonyms:
   prove, accept, embrace, demonstrate

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1. refute

   To refute and to confute are to answer so as to admit of no reply. To refute a statement is to demonstrate its falsity by argument or countervailing proof; confute is substantially the same in meaning, tho differing in usage. Refute applies either to arguments and opinions or to accusations; confute is not applied to accusations and charges, but to arguments or opinions. Refute is not now applied to persons, but confute is in good use in this application; a person is confuted when his arguments are refuted.

   Synonyms:
   confound, confute, disprove, overthrow, repel

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1. refute

   Synonyms:
   negative, disprove, neutralize, controvert, repel, confute

   Antonyms:
   prove, confirm, establish

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1. refute, rebutverb

   overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof

   "The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments"

   Synonyms:
   controvert, rebut

2. refute, rebut, controvertverb

   prove to be false or incorrect

   Synonyms:
   controvert, rebut, contradict, oppose

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1. refuteverb

   Synonyms:
   confute, disprove, prove to be false

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1. refuteverb

   Synonyms:
   confute, disprove

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1. List of paraphrases for "refute":

   rebut, disprove, refutes, gainsay, contradict, dispel, reject, repudiate, deny

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How to use refute in a sentence?

1. Tori Herridge:

   I am very excited to see how this work develops, and what new data might arise to support or refute this. I am sure it will come under intense scrutiny.

2. Leondios Kostrikis:

   These findings refute the undocumented statements that deltacron is a result of a technical error.

3. Josh Billings:

   Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

4. Professor Kalt:

   Citing me that way, they make it sound like I was making that argument. But I wasn't. On page 37, I raise that argument as something a critic might say, and then I refute it.

5. Khieu Samphan:

   I categorically refute the accusation and the conviction that I had the intention to commit the crimes, no matter when it was, any crimes, be they crimes against humanity in any forms, no matter it was the genocide against the Vietnamese, the murders, I have never committed them.