Sample Sentences for
refute
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    It's a horrible thing for Gale to say, for Peeta not to refute.  (source)
    refute = argue against
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    The prosecution does not refute this testimony.  (source)
    refute = argue that it is false
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    Nor, though he knew it to be untrue, did Comrade Pillai refute the allegation of attempted rape in Baby Kochamma's First Information Report.  (source)
    refute = argue against
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    Since this allegation falls very directly into my own realm, I am able to refute it with absolute authority.  (source)
    refute = argue that it is false
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    Now that I have told you such a lot about Plato, you must start by hearing how Aristotle refuted Plato's theory of ideas.  (source)
    refuted = argued it was false
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    Not a catalog of my consciousness, but a refutation of it.  (source)
    refutation = argument against
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    I was so committed to refuting him that I had half-denied the charge before I understood it;  (source)
    refuting = arguing that something is false
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    In this instance as in so many other instances in these days, the character of this unfortunate man signally refutes ... that peevish saying attributed to the late Dr. Johnson, that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.  (source)
    refutes = disproves (shows that something is false)
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    Your novel may contain echoes or refutations of novels or poems you've never read.†  (source)
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    "I didn't touch you, you lying creature!" cried she, her fingers tingling to repeat the act, and... "What's that, then?" I retorted, showing a decided purple witness to refute her.  (source)
    refute = disprove the argument of
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    his theories were refuted, smashed, ridiculed, held up to the general gaze for the pitiful rubbish that they were  (source)
    refuted = proved or argued as false
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    The people, in the case of which we speak, could justify its prejudice against Roger Chillingworth by no fact or argument worthy of serious refutation.  (source)
    refutation = argument against
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    I hope this book will go some distance toward refuting that.  (source)
    refuting = proving or arguing that something is false
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