"Refute" means to prove something to be wrong or false by providing evidence or arguments to the contrary.
The plural of refute is refutes. As in "the company refutes the claims".
I have nothing to refute your hypothesis.
The lawyer had no argument to refute the evidence against his client. Refute means to disprove.
The opposite of refute is confirm or validate, meaning to support or prove true.
There is no evidence that refutes the theory of evolution by natural selection. Critiques and arguments by creationist and ID advocates are always poorly thought out and easily shown to be wrong by even undergraduates. The arguments use straw men and other fallacies plus they have been refuted so many times that to bring one of these arguments up is to self parody.
There is no evidence that refutes the theory of evolution by natural selection. Critiques and arguments by creationist and ID advocates are always poorly thought out and easily shown to be wrong by even undergraduates. The arguments use straw men and other fallacies plus they have been refuted so many times that to bring one of these arguments up is to self parody.
Are you able to refute the testimony that the witness just presented.
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Sally will refute Ben's false accusation
Fruit, suit, and mute all rhyme with refute.
A compound sentence is made up of two or more independent clauses. An example of a compound sentence that uses the word "refute" would be: You continue to refute my theory, so I will no longer discuss it with you.