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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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