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Meanings of confute (confuted) in English

Prove to be false.

Usage of confuted in English
1
She had never met a German whose example confuted the stereotype.
Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
2
Seeing him dumfounded, the other concluded him confuted, and withdrew calmed.
The Cloister and the Hearth
3
My guide has been intuition, confirmed and seldom confuted by research.
A Study of Hawthorne
4
This argument, which appeals to experience, may from experience be confuted.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 04 / ...
5
And so admit that home-thrust, Master Sophist; (3) and confess yourself confuted.
The Symposium
6
This supposition is confuted by the history of all the nations on the continent.
The History of England, Volume I / From the Invasion of Julius C...
7
Lord Ellenborough, more than eight years afterwards, confuted the calumny.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Acc...
8
There is no method by which he may be confuted, however preposterous his assertions.
Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life
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How many have I lived to see established and confuted!
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
10
But this supposition was confuted by the next shot.
The Greylock: A Fairy Tale
11
Those errors have been confuted by scepticism and science.
God and My Neighbour
12
She had no objection to being confuted by Lewisham.
Love and Mr. Lewisham
13
Either I am mistaken or you will find every thing you have said already confuted.'
The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
14
Did you ever hear of a Theory being confuted?
Mince Pie
15
Prophecy was that species of interference which was least liable to the being confuted and exposed.
Lives of the Necromancers
16
He also confuted atheism on the Newtonian system.
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