confute
verb
[ kənˈfjuːt ]
• prove (a person or an assertion or accusation) to be wrong.
• "restorers who sought to confute this view were accused of ignorance"
Similar:
disprove,
show/prove to be false,
contradict,
negate,
deny,
refute,
rebut,
gainsay,
belie,
give the lie to,
invalidate,
explode,
discredit,
expose,
debunk,
quash,
knock the bottom out of,
shoot full of holes,
shoot down (in flames),
controvert,
negative,
Origin:
early 16th century: from Latin confutare ‘restrain, answer conclusively’, from con- ‘altogether’ + the base of refutare ‘refute’.
