OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 10576

refute

/ɹɪˈfjuːt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
impugnar • negar la mayor • rebatir • refutar • ripostar • salir al paso de
To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.
After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the…
negar rehusar • rechazar
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".