confute(v = verb.cognition) disprove - prove to be false; "The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories"
is one way to contradict, negate
Derived forms noun confutation₂, noun confutation₁, adjective confutative₁, noun confuter₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

   To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence. [1913 Webster]
"Satan stood . . . confuted and convinced
Of his weak arguing fallacious drift." [1913 Webster]
"No man's error can be confuted who doth not . . . grant some true principle that contradicts his error." [1913 Webster]
"I confute a good profession with a bad conversation."

confute, v.tr.
1 prove (a person) to be in error.
2 prove (an argument) to be false.

Derivative:
confutation n.

Etymology:
L confutare restrain

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.