intransitive and transitive (with the person addressed as object). To make a reply or (esp.) a rejoinder to a superior; = to answer back at phrasal…

To overthrow (in argument).

transitive. To dismiss by argument; to refute. Obsolete. rare.

To discomfit in argument, silence, confute (a person, or a statement, opinion, etc.). Obsolete.

To overcome in argument; to confute, ‘shut up’; to convince. Obsolete.

transitive. To overcome in argument, confute.

transitive. To confound.

To speak against, contradict.

transitive. To reprehend or rebuke (someone); to refute or controvert. Cf. redargue, v.

transitive. figurative. To beat (a person) in argument or debate; to argue strongly against (a person) that something is the case. Obsolete.

transitive. To confute, refute (a person) by argument. Obsolete (Scottish after 17th cent.).

To fight, oppose, resist, or contend against; to disobey; to repel, reject, disavow, refute. transitive. With a thing as object.

transitive. To defeat by argument; to confute. Obsolete.

transitive. To disprove, refute; to show to be wrong or false; (Scots Law) to disallow. Chiefly Scots Law in later use.

transitive. To refute or contradict (a person); to prove (a person) wrong. Obsolete.

To do away with as false or erroneous; to refute, confute. Obsolete.

transitive. To refute, disprove.

To overcome (a person) in argument; to prove to be wrong, confute. Obsolete. (Cf. also 6)

transitive. To prove (a person) to be wrong; to overcome or silence in argument; to convict of error by argument or proof.

transitive. To refute or confute (a person).

transitive. To prove (a person) to be wrong.

To confute or refute. Obsolete.

transitive. To overcome (a person) in argument or litigation; to confute (a disputant); to refute (an opinion or argument). Obsolete.

To refute; to contradict, deny. Obsolete.

transitive. To prove something to be false, refute. Cf. reprehension, n. 2. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To refute, rebut. Obsolete. rare.

To confute, convict of error. Obsolete.

transitive. To disprove, confute.

transitive. To remove or do away with (an objection); to disprove, refute (an argument). Obsolete.

transitive. To explode, dispel.

transitive. To render invalid; to invalidate.

transitive. To render invalid; to destroy the validity or strength of (an argument, contract, etc.); to render of no force or effect; esp. to…

transitive. To renounce or disallow (a practice, etc.); to reject or overturn (an opinion, an argument, etc.). Obsolete.

transitive. To refute; to disprove.

To put to confusion.

To argue against, contest, controvert. To controvert (a person).

transitive. To disprove or refute.

transitive. colloquial. To have put at a disadvantage in an argument or discussion; to have got the better of. Usually with there as complement. Cf…

figurative. transitive. To refute comprehensively or decisively (an argument, theory, idea, etc., or its proponent).

to blow sky-high. To refute, discredit, or disprove (an opinion, theory, etc.). Cf. explode, v. 3.