About The Word Confute
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What's The Definition Of Confute?
[v] prove to be false; "The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Confute: disprove Related Terms | Find terms related to Confute: answer | answer conclusively | antagonize | argue down | be antipathetic | be inimical | beat against | break | clash | collide | conflict | conflict with | confound | contradict | contrapose | contravene | controvert | counter | counteract | counterattack | countercharge | counterclaim | counterpose | countervail | counterwork | cross | crush | defeat | demolish | deny | disconfirm | dismiss | dispose of | evert | finish | floor | go against | go counter to | interfere with | lock horns | make a rebuttal | meet head-on | militate against | nonplus | oppose | oppugn | overthrow | overturn | overwhelm | parry | put to silence | rebut | reduce to silence | refute | rejoin | resist | run against | run counter to | settle | shut up | silence | smash all opposition | squash | squelch | subvert | surrebut | surrejoin | swim upstream | undermine | upset | work against See Also | contradict | controvert | explode | falsify | negate | rebut | refute Confute In Webster's Dictionary \Con*fute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Confuted}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Confuting}.] [L. confutare to chek (a boiling liquid), to
repress, confute; con- + a root seen in futis a water
vessel), prob. akin to fundere to pour: cf. F. confuter. See
{Fuse} to melt.]
To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or
show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.
Satan stood . . . confuted and convinced Of his weak
arguing fallacious drift. --Milton.
No man's error can be confuted who doth not . . . grant
some true principle that contradicts his error.
--Chillingworth.
I confute a good profession with a bad conversation.
--Fuller.
Syn: To disprove; overthrow; sed aside; refute; oppugn.
Usage: To {Confute}, {Refute.} Refute is literally to and
decisive evidence; as, to refute a calumny, charge,
etc. Confute is literally to check boiling, as when
cold water is poured into hot, thus serving to allay,
bring down, or neutralize completely. Hence, as
applied to arguments (and the word is never applied,
like refute, to charges), it denotes, to overwhelm by
evidence which puts an end to the case and leaves an
opponent nothing to say; to silence; as, ``the atheist
is confuted by the whole structure of things around
him.''
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