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Meanings of controvert in English

Portuguese
opor
Catalan
contradir

Be resistant to.

        opor
        Portuguese
        refutar

        Prove to be false or incorrect.

              refutar
              Usage of controvert in English
              1
              Our primary findings controvert previous reports of thinner NFL in moderate-to-severe AD.
              Pubmed
              2
              He may say what he pleases; I will not again controvert it.
              The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)
              3
              Neither optimism, nor ignorance, nor bigotry, nor deception can controvert these facts.
              The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Re...
              4
              I controvert all these propositions, and shall proceed at once to my argument.
              American Eloquence, Volume 3 / Studies In American Political His...
              5
              There is nothing to be gained by endeavoring to controvert it.
              Winston of the Prairie
              6
              You cannot be so rude as deliberately to controvert your host.
              His Hour
              7
              Indian Mahomedan community, rather than to endorse or to controvert them.
              Indian Unrest
              8
              No evidence-intheory, at least-cancontrovert a written instrument, signed, sealed, and delivered.
              Hiram the Young Farmer
              9
              Somewhat to Ashburner's surprise his friend made no attempt to controvert his argument.
              The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
              10
              That you know your duty, and will not offer to controvert his will?
              Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1
              11
              I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted.
              The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds
              12
              To controvert so firmly established an idea savored of heresy.
              A History of Science — Volume 2
              13
              If I say that the atom is just a-hole-inside-a-hole-through-a-hole, how can they controvert me?
              A Case of Conscience
              14
              I frequently endeavoured to controvert this idea, but without success.
              Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 08
              15
              But they, none of them, were in a position to controvert the skipper's statement.
              For the Term of His Natural Life
              16
              Mr. Cole also proposed to controvert an opinion of Mr. Walpole's respecting Cardinal Morton.
              The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
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              Catalan
              contradir
              Controvert through the time
              Controvert across language varieties
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