2 uses
(click/touch triangles for details)
Definition
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."
- What a contradictory person he was, she thought, hurrying along South Road.p. 110.7
- In some contradictory way grief seemed to have etched on Mercy's thin face a beauty it had never possessed.p. 234.3
There are no more uses of "contradict" in The Witch of Blackbird Pond.
Typical Usage
(best examples)