Synonyms for confute
kənˈfyutcon·fute

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1. confute

   To refute and to confute are to answer so as to admit of no reply. To refute a statement is to demonstrate its falsity by argument or countervailing proof; confute is substantially the same in meaning, tho differing in usage. Refute applies either to arguments and opinions or to accusations; confute is not applied to accusations and charges, but to arguments or opinions. Refute is not now applied to persons, but confute is in good use in this application; a person is confuted when his arguments are refuted.

   Synonyms:
   confound, disprove, overthrow, refute, repel

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1. disprove, confuteverb

   prove to be false

   "The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories"

   Synonyms:
   disprove

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1. confuteverb

   Synonyms:
   overthrow (by argument), overcome (in debate), convict of error, put to silence

2. confuteverb

   Synonyms:
   disprove, refute, prove to be false

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1. confuteverb

   Synonyms:
   refute, disprove

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1. Francis Bacon:

   Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

2. Sir Francis Bacon, O Magazine, April 2003:

   Read not to contradict and confute…nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.