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confute verb answer, argue, challenge, confound, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, counteract, countercharge, countervail, debate, defeat, demolish, deny, disagree, disavow, disown, disprove, dispute, dissent, fight, gainsay, impeach, impugn, invalidate, negate, oppose, parry, quash, quibble, rebut, refute, reply, repudiate, retort, riposte, set aside, squelch, subvert, upset, vanquish Associated concepts: confute a witness' testimony See also: answer, argue, challenge, contest, contradict, controvert, counter, counteract, countercharge, countervail, cross, debate, disagree, disapprove, disown, disprove, dispute, dissent, fight, impeach, impugn, invalidate, negate, oppose, parry, rebut, refute, reject, reply How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| He confutes the often asserted opinion that women belonged in considerable numbers to sixteenth-century literary academies. Murky, smelly, and rust-colored, the water pumped between 1964 and 1979 from the wells serving East Woburn confutes our ideas of what water ought to be--to read of people chilling it, boiling it, mixing it with powdered flavorings in order to drink it is to enter, through homely details, a horror story. The all-too-visible hand of state intervention confutes the '30s, Chicago School model of urban ecology, which is based on social-Darwinist notions of predation, invasion, and succession. |
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