All 3 Uses of "contradict" in "The Secret Garden"

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All 3 Uses

contradict
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The Secret Garden
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"You're not!" contradicted Mary unsympathetically.†
p. 148.2 *

contradicted = disagreed
A nice sympathetic child could neither have thought nor have said such things, but it just happened that the shock of hearing them was the best possible thing for this hysterical boy whom no one had ever dared to restrain or contradict.†
p. 154.3

contradict = disagree
"You didn't feel a lump!" contradicted Mary fiercely.†
p. 154.9

contradicted = disagreed

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(1) (contradict)
disagree
in various senses, including:
- to say something is not true -- as in "She contradicted his testimony."
- to say something else is true when both can't be true -- as in "I don't believe her. She contradicted herself as she told us what happened."
- to be in conflict with -- as in "Her assertions contradict accepted scientific principles."
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)