refute
verb/ɹɪˈfjuːt/UK/ɹɪˈfjut/CA/ɹɪˈfjʉːt/
Etymology
From Latin refūtō (“refute, repudiate”).
Definitions
To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.
To deny the truth or correctness of (something)
To deny the truth or correctness of (something); to reject or disagree with an accusation.
- A spokesperson for VARS Technology said: “We completely refute the suggestion that our market-leading ANPR system is unreliable".
The neighborhood
- neighborrefudiate
- neighborrefusal
- neighborrefuse
- neighborrefutability
- neighborrefutable
- neighborrefutably
- neighborrefutal
- neighborrefutation
- neighborrefuted
- neighborrefuter
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at refute. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at refute. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at refute
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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