- 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. Source: opted
- 2. n. the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions Source: wordnet
- 3. n. any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something Source: wordnet
- 4. n. the act of determining that something is false Source: wordnet
- 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. Source: webster
- 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. Source: adambom
- 7. n:100 n. the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions Source: ecdict
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