Crossword-Solution: REFUTE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Refute | v. t. | To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence, or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to refute arguments; to refute testimony; to refute opinions or theories; to refute a disputant. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| REFUTE | anagram | FEUTRE |
We have 31 clues for the answer “REFUTE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Successfully argue against, in court | 1 answer |
| Show to be invalid. | 1 answer |
| Counter convincingly | 1 answer |
| Give the lie to. | 2 answers |
| Prove to be false | 2 answers |
| ARGUE against | 3 answers |
| Prove wrong | 4 answers |
| DETERMINE (ant.) | 5 answers |
| Show to be false | 5 answers |
| Prove false | 7 answers |
| COMMISSION (ant.) | 8 answers |
| ATTACK AS FALSE OR WRONG | 10 answers |
| ESTABLISH (ant.) | 11 answers |
| Rebut | 12 answers |
| Disprove | 14 answers |
| countercheck | 16 answers |
| confute | 21 answers |
| disaffirm | 22 answers |
| belie | 23 answers |
| Invalidate | 27 answers |
| Bicker | 36 answers |
| Retract | 38 answers |
| Contradict | 45 answers |
| call in question | 46 answers |
| Counteract | 49 answers |
| Argue | 58 answers |
| Deny | 58 answers |
| Confound | 59 answers |
| repeal | 64 answers |
| Reject | 73 answers |
| COUNTER ___ | 77 answers |
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Sentences with REFUTE (5)
Yet the idea dwells so strongly in my mind, that I feel considerably tempted to write a page or two in detailing at least the outline of my hypothesis, leaving better antiquaries to correct or refute conclusions which are perhaps too hastily drawn.
Now, when a man is in this state, and the questioning spirit asks what is fair or honourable, and he answers as the legislator has taught him, and then arguments many and diverse refute his words, until he is driven into believing that nothing is honourable any more than dishonourable, or just and good any more than the reverse, and so of all the notions which he most valued, do you think that he will still honour and obey them as before? Impossible.
From your own account, it ‘s ten to one that in the long run you ‘re a failure.” “I say those things sometimes myself, but when I hear you say them they make me feel as if I could work twenty years at a sitting, on purpose to refute you!” “Ah, the man who is strong with what I call strength,” Christina replied, “would neither rise nor fall by anything I could say! I am a poor, weak woman; I have no strength myself, and I can give no strength.
Revived temporarily by the tender ministrations of his disciples, he is enabled to tell over his past labors in the service of his beloved Master, to refute the Antichrist already in the world, and to answer the questions which, with his far-reaching spiritual vision, he foresees will be raised in regard to Christ’s nature, life, doctrine, and miracles, as recorded in the Gospel he has written.
Darrow to refute me; and how can he, till he knows what I think?” “You think it’s perfectly simple to let Owen marry a girl we know nothing about?” “No; but I don’t think it’s perfectly simple to prevent him.” The shrewdness of the answer increased Darrow’s interest in Miss Painter.
Quotes with REFUTE (3)
One salutary development in recent ethical theorizing is the widespread recognition that no short argument will serve to eliminate any of the major metaethical positions. Such theories have to weave together views in semantics, epistemology, moral psychology and metaphysics. The comprehensive, holistic character of much recent theorizing suggests the futility of fastening on just a single sort of argument to refute a developed version of realism or antirealism. No one any lon…
One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it.
In all human endeavors that deal with what is unthinkable, too terrible to be dealt with squarely, we turn to what is familiar and regimented: funerals, wakes, and even wars. Now, in this trial, we had gone beyond our empathy with the pain of the victims and our niggling realization that the defendant was a fragmented personality. He knew the rules, he even knew a great deal about the law, but he did not seem to be cognizant of what was about to happen to him. He seemed to co…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 45 times in crossword archives (1958–2021).