confute

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
confute/kənˈfjuːt/

▶verb formal prove to be wrong.

– derivatives
confutation noun.

– origin C16 (earlier (ME) as confutation): from L. confutare ‘restrain, answer conclusively’, from con- ‘altogether’ + the base of refutare ‘refute’.

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