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The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments.refuted = argued against
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He refuted the argument.
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The facts of the situation refute the accounts given by Patriots regarding the Boston Massacre.refute = disprove
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The prosecution does not refute this testimony. (source)refute = argue that it is false
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Not a catalog of my consciousness, but a refutation of it. (source)refutation = argument against
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refute their claim (source)refute = to disprove or argue against
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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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Lynn's claim that Asians have higher IQs has been refuted, convincingly, by a number of other experts, who showed that he based his argument on IQ samples drawn disproportionately from urban, upper-income homes. (source)refuted = argued as wrong
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On the surface it appeared to be totally peaceful and almost a refutation of the term "revolution." (source)refutation = evidence that something is falsestandard 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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Son of old Healfdene: "He may say unrefuted 50 Who performs 'mid the folk-men fairness and truth (The hoary old ruler remembers the past), That better by birth is this bairn of the nobles!† (source)unrefuted = not disproved or argued againststandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrefuted means not and reverses the meaning of refuted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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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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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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They are interested solely in confirming highly dubious theoretical hypotheses ... and make no attempt at refutation (source)refutation = evidence or argument that something is false
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