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confute

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7 lettersPronunciation /kənˈfjuːt/Part of speech verbSorted cefnotuStarts with CEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. prove to be false

Word origin

From Middle French confuter, from Latin confūtō.

Used in a sentence

  • Procatalepsis is a forme of speech by which the Orator perceiving aforehand what might be objected against him, and hurt him, doth confute it before it be spoken […].
  • bad books [...] to a discreet and judicious Reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate.
  • The conjecture of [Greenland] jointing on the east with Spitzberg, Nova-zembla, and Tartary, is pretty well, if not entirely, confuted by the new discoveries of the Dutch and Russians.

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