"confute" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /kənfjuːt/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-confute.wav [Southern-England] Forms: confutes [present, singular, third-person], confuting [participle, present], confuted [participle, past], confuted [past]
Etymology: From Middle French confuter, from Latin confūtāre. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|frm|confuter}} Middle French confuter, {{uder|en|la|confūtāre}} Latin confūtāre Head templates: {{en-verb}} confute (third-person singular simple present confutes, present participle confuting, simple past and past participle confuted)
  1. (transitive, now rare) To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute. Tags: archaic, transitive Derived forms: confutable, inconfutable Translations (to disprove, refute): опровергавам (oprovergavam) (Bulgarian), оборвам (oborvam) (Bulgarian), confutare (Italian), опроверга́ть (oprovergátʹ) [neuter] (Russian), çürütmek (Turkish), yalanlamak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-confute-en-verb-7lg5tE49 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations

Inflected forms

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