Definitions
expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
Word origin
From de- (“away”) + bunk (“nonsense”) (from bunkum, from Buncombe County) 1923.
Used in a sentence
“The explosion story was thoroughly debunked on National Public Radio in November 1999.”
“debunk a theory”
“I am reading Nick Sousanis’ PhD dissertation-as-a-comic Unflattening. It debunks the primacy of word over image in Western culture and suggests that the two are equal partners in meaning-making.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Expose as false”6 letters
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