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Meanings of refute in English
Synonyms
Examples for "rebut"
Examples for "rebut"
1
There is, however, no shortage of company defenders to rebut such criticism.
2
We made the necessary preparations to rebut all allegations contained in it.
3
Refute does not merely mean deny, it does not even mean rebut.
4
But Beckert's final plea to the improvised jury is hard to rebut.
5
If Your Majesty would deign to rebut it, how could it stand?
1
Our primary findings controvert previous reports of thinner NFL in moderate-to-severe AD.
2
He may say what he pleases; I will not again controvert it.
3
Neither optimism, nor ignorance, nor bigotry, nor deception can controvert these facts.
4
I controvert all these propositions, and shall proceed at once to my argument.
5
There is nothing to be gained by endeavoring to controvert it.
Usage of refute in English
1
The idea was to refute Soviet claims that America was culturally vacuous.
2
But, of course, you can't refute anything with one hundred percent certainty.
3
The key seen in her possession would refute me if I did.
4
To state the first in its proper form, is to refute it.
5
If they wish to refute this claim, they should disclose their funding.
6
All the alchymists were in arms immediately, to refute this formidable antagonist.
7
He who seeks to refute skepticism must produce a criterion of truth.
8
Kick a stone for me, and say, 'Thus I refute Bishop Berkeley.'
9
The FBI files presented on the following pages do not refute that.
10
The prosecution of an innocent printer cannot alter facts nor refute arguments.
11
This calumny you have it, at length, in your power to refute.
12
And visitors to YUZU would be hard pressed to refute his claim.
13
How better to refute fundamentalists who claim man was created by God?
14
He did not look at her, or attempt to refute the statement.
15
The letters, now first printed, entirely refute this hasty and erroneous statement.
16
He listens to people only to refute them and brooks little opposition.
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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