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disprove
[ dis-proov ]
verb (used with object)
- to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate:
I disproved his claim.
Synonyms: confute, negate, contradict, discredit
disprove
/ dɪsˈpruːv /
verb
- tr to show (an assertion, claim, etc) to be incorrect
Derived Forms
- disˈprovable, adjective
- disˈproval, noun
Other Words From
- dis·prova·ble adjective
- dis·prover noun
- undis·prova·ble adjective
- undis·proved adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of disprove1
Example Sentences
He added he has more than two years of recordings of past conversations that disprove the accusations.
That doesn’t necessarily confirm or disprove anybody’s timeline, but it suggests Irving was pursing these options even before he said Sund made the request.
More than one participant says without providing evidence that “Antifa” infiltrated the protest and was responsible for the violence, a claim disproved by many other videos, as well as the subsequent arrests.
The once-popular notion that the NFL lacks a pipeline of minority coaching candidates has been disproved.
A few weeks earlier, in Germany, a woman’s death became the first fatality initially attributed to a ransomware attack, although the link was later disproved.
The great confusion comes, according to Sánchez, when people try to use science to prove or disprove the existence of God.
Carreño declared, defying Capriles to disprove allegations that he was involved in “immoral acts,” which is Chavista code for gay.
But it's a basic rule of politics: If you can't disprove the message, you try to discredit the messenger.
Can we commission a poll to confirm or disprove that thesis?
The second point, also difficult to disprove, seems irrelevant to the job of polemicist.
To make the Resurrection "independent of miracles" is to disprove the Resurrection, which is a miracle or nothing.
Can any of your correspondents account for it on philosophical principles, or disprove it experimentally?
Infidels have utterly failed in their attempts to disprove one of the hundreds of such statements in the New Testament.
But recent discoveries have brought to light many important examples which completely disprove his depreciatory estimate.
That effect would prove neither the reality of the vision nor the supernatural quality of the cure; nor would it disprove either.
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