To refute (an objection or argument). Obsolete.

transitive. To prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or erroneous; to show the fallacy or non-validity of; to refute, rebut, invalidate.

To refute (an argument or objection); to overcome by argument; = assoil, v. 7.

To refute (a statement). Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To disprove, refute; to deny, reject.

Logic. The opposite of affirm; to assert the contradictory of (a proposition).

transitive. To attack or oppose with words, action, influence, etc.; esp. to call into question, controvert, or dispute the truth or validity of (a…

By-form of disprove, v.

transitive. To refute or disprove (an argument, opinion, error, etc.); to prove to be false or untenable.

transitive. To prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be untrue or wrong; to refute, invalidate; = disprove, v. 1a. Now rare.

transitive. To disallow; to disprove.

To prove (an argument or opinion) to be false, invalid, or defective; to disprove, refute.

Misreading in N.E.D. (1895) (taken as a variant of depreve, v. with the sense ‘to disprove, refute, contradict, disapprove’) of deprave in the…

To demonstrate or prove (a thing, argument, etc.) to be erroneous; to disprove, refute.

To prove (something) to be false, esp. by means of argument or debate. transitive. To rebut (an opinion, theory, claim, etc.).

transitive. To dispel or overcome (a doubt). Cf. salve, v.2 2. Obsolete. rare.

To prove (a doctrine (obsolete) or its holders) to be wrong, erroneous, or false; = convince, v. 6. archaic.

transitive. To destroy, annihilate, nullify; to render of no account. Obsolete.

transitive. To refute, disprove (an argument, statement, etc.). Chiefly Scots Law after 17th cent.

To set aside by argument; to controvert, rebut. Obsolete. rare.