Thesaurus: refutation

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1. n. The act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine, or theory, by argument or countervailing proof.
2. n. the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
3. n. any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
4. n. the act of determining that something is false
5. The act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine, or theory, by argument or countervailing proof. Same of his blunders seem rather to deserve a flogging than a refutation. Macaulay.
6. The act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state ofbeing refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of anargument, opinion, testimony, doctrine, or theory, by argument orcountervailing proof.Same of his blunders seem rather to deserve a flogging than arefutation. Macaulay.
7. n:100 n. the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions