Both Uses of
contradict
in
Gifted Hands
- And that experience contradicted everything I'd read about dreams in my psychological studies.†
p. 75..3
- It hadn't taken me long to learn that those words contradicted his nice-guy image.†
p. 115..3 *
Definition:
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(contradict) disagreein 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."