Confute
[kən-FYOOT]
Part of speech: verb
Origin: Latin, 16th century
1.
Prove (a person or an assertion) to be wrong.
Examples of Confute in a sentence
"The student confuted the professor with a logical proof."
"After some research, I was able to confute the belief that fruit trees couldn’t grow in this climate."
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