Crossword-Solution: DISPROVE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Disprove | v. t. | To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute. |
| Disprove | v. t. | To disallow; to disapprove of. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DISPROVE | anagram | PROVIDES |
We have 21 clues for the answer “DISPROVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| DETERMINE (ant.) | 5 answers |
| Show to be false | 5 answers |
| ESTABLISH (ant.) | 11 answers |
| Rebut | 12 answers |
| Controvert | 17 answers |
| confute | 21 answers |
| belie | 23 answers |
| Invalidate | 27 answers |
| Gainsay | 29 answers |
| Refute | 33 answers |
| Explode | 41 answers |
| Discredit | 45 answers |
| Contradict | 45 answers |
| Negate | 45 answers |
| Blow up. | 49 answers |
| MAKE laborious research | 53 answers |
| Deny | 58 answers |
| Confound | 59 answers |
| Negative | 82 answers |
| Answer | 84 answers |
| Shoot | 106 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with DISPROVE (5)
These were researchers who were consistently challenged to prove or disprove their own theories and then defend them.
The grand thing to be done, therefore, was to change the estimation in which the colored people of the United States were held; to remove the prejudice which depreciated and depressed them; to prove them worthy of a higher consideration; to disprove their alleged inferiority, and demonstrate their capacity for a more exalted civilization than slavery and prejudice had assigned to them.
They do not exist.” “Monsieur,” answered Nick, “it is to disprove that statement that I have bought the birds.
Goethe, the most comprehensive of Seers, must needs expose his incompleteness by futile attempts to disprove Newton’s theory of colour.
Some of these statements dealt with facts, about which the critics might have acquired better information, had they so desired, others were prophecies of which only the years to come could prove or disprove the truth, others again touched difficulties which were even then confronting Count Zinzendorf’s agent; but in the light of contemporary writings and later developments, it is possible to glance at each point and see in how far the Halle party were justified in their argument.
Quotes with DISPROVE (3)
When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time.
The claim that science can disprove God’s existence is an honest ambition but it is a statement that is actually impossible to back up. This is because the task of proving something like science is unprovable by scientific methods. How do you prove an idea like “science”? What container do you use to measure it? What laws of science do you use to prove science? That’s the first reason why the worldview of scientism, the belief that science proves everything, fails to work out…
You might think that, by now, people would have become accustomed to the idea of natural catastrophes. We live on a planet that is still cooling and which has fissures and faults in its crust; this much is accepted even by those who think that the globe is only six thousand years old, as well as by those who believe that the earth was "designed" to be this way. Even in such a case, it is to be expected that earthquakes will occur and that, if they occur under the seabed, tida…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, Universal.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1978–2009).