disprove(v = verb.cognition) confute - prove to be false; "The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories"
is one way to contradict, negate
Antonym: prove
Derived form noun disprover1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
disprove, v.tr. prove false; refute.
Derivative:
disprovable adj. disproval n.
Etymology:
ME f. OF desprover (as DIS-, PROVE)
VB confute, refute, disprove, parry, negative, controvert, rebut, confound, disconfirm, redargue, expose, show the fallacy of, defeat, demolish, break, overthrow, overturn scatter to the winds, explode, invalidate, silence, put to silence, reduce to silence, clinch an argument, clinch a question, give one a setdown, stop the mouth, shut up, have, have on the hip, not leave a leg to stand on, cut the ground from under one's feet, be confuted, fail, expose one's weak point, show one's weak point, counter evidence.