abjure, belie, controvert, deny, disprove, join issue upon, overthrow, refuse to admit, say in defense, stand up for, undermine
Definitionv. overthrow by argument
Last update: September 1, 2015
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My lawyer refuted all his arguments. [verb]
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Again, the respondent did not adduce evidence to refute this. [verb]
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Unfortunately there is no data to accept or refute these hypotheses. [verb]
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'" "Mr Balfour," answered Morton, "I neither undertake to subscribe to or refute your complaints against the government.' [verb]
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It is scarcely necessary to refute this last argument. [verb]
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All those statements are so utterly untrue and unfounded that one is ashamed to refute them. [verb]
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Works of this kind, dealing with the very essence of Christian doctrine, ought, one would have thought, to have been examined and accepted as true, or refuted and rejected. [verb]
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The practical reasonableness of this rule of conduct is shown independently of Scripture, and all the objections ordinarily made against its practicability are stated and refuted. [verb]
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So general an assertion cannot be refuted. [verb]
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