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to disprove or argue against

refuted = argued against

refuted = argued against

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.

refute = disprove

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

refute = argue against

I was so committed to refuting him that I had half-denied the charge before I understood it;
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

refuting = arguing that something is false

refuted = proved false

refute = argue against

I hope this book will go some distance toward refuting that.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen

refuting = proving or arguing that something is false

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

refuted = argued that something is false

They savour ... views that I have completely refuted in four of my unpublished sermons.
Oscar Wilde -- The Importance of Being Earnest

refuted = disproved or argued against

I leaned there, aching to humiliate them, to refute them.
Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man

refute = disprove the argument of

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

refuting = proving it wrong

he scarcely tried to refute his evidence
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov

refute = argue against

But self-destruction therefore sought, refutes
That excellence thought in thee; and implies,
John Milton -- Paradise Lost

refutes = argues against

It's a horrible thing for Gale to say, for Peeta not to refute.
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay

refute = argue against

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