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to disprove or argue against- The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments.
refuted = argued against
- He refuted the argument.
- Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.Josh Billings
- The facts of the situation refute the accounts given by Patriots regarding the Boston Massacre.
- Ignorance of the law excuses no man: Not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.John Selden
- That was evidence which one could not well refute.Twain, Mark -- The Innocents Abroad
- Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.John Stuart Mill
- Wickham, I can only refute it by laying before you the whole of his connection with my family.Austen, Jane -- Pride and Prejudice
- The prosecution does not refute this testimony.Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing
- I asked Dr. Strauss how Nemur could refute Rahajamati's attack on his method and results if Nemur couldn't even read them in the first place.Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon
- I was so committed to refuting him that I had half-denied the charge before I understood it;John Knowles -- A Separate Peace
- The logic cannot be refuted,Franz Kafka -- The Trial
- seeking arguments to refute other theoriesLeo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
- I hope this book will go some distance toward refuting that.Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
- my friend M. le Roy, of the Royal Academy of Sciences, took up my cause and refuted him;Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- They savour ... views that I have completely refuted in four of my unpublished sermons.Oscar Wilde -- The Importance of Being Earnest
- I leaned there, aching to humiliate them, to refute them.Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
- I'm tempted to try refuting it, but then I would be open to the further charges of "defensiveness" and "resistance."Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
- he scarcely tried to refute his evidenceFyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
- But self-destruction therefore sought, refutes
That excellence thought in thee; and implies,John Milton -- Paradise Lost
refuted = argued against
refute = disprove
refute = argue against
refute = prove false
refuting = arguing that something is false
refuted = proved false
refute = argue against
refuting = proving or arguing that something is false
refuted = argued that something is false
refuted = disproved or argued against
refute = disprove the argument of
refuting = proving it wrong
refute = argue against
refutes = argues against