confuting in English
restorers who sought to confute this view were accused of ignorance
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1. Confutation definition, the act of confuting
2. Confutation definition: the act of confuting Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples
3. Confutation (countable and uncountable, plural Confutations) The act or process of confuting; refutation
4. Antonyms for Confirmatory include confuting, disproving, refuting, rebutting, disaffirming, antithetical, controverting, disconfirming, disagreeing and defending
5. Antonyms for Corroborating include confuting, disproving, refuting, rebutting, disaffirming, antithetical, controverting, disconfirming, disagreeing and defending
6. Antonyms for Corroborative include confuting, disproving, refuting, disagreeing, rebutting, negating, negative, opposing, conflicting and disaffirming
7. confute (third-person singular simple present confutes, present participle confuting, simple past and past participle Confuted) (transitive, now rare) To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute
8. Confute (third-person singular simple present Confutes, present participle confuting, simple past and past participle Confuted) (transitive, now rare) To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute
9. Inflections of 'Confute' (v): (⇒ conjugate) Confutes v 3rd person singular confuting v pres p verb, present participle: -ing verb used descriptively or to form progressive verb--for example, "a singing bird," "It is singing." Confuted v past verb, past simple: Past tense--for example, "He saw the man."
10. Confute (v.) "prove to be false or invalid, overthrow by evidence or stronger argument," 1520s, from French confuter, from Latin confutare "repress, check; disprove, restrain, silence," from assimilated form of com-, here probably an intensive prefix (see con-), + *futare "to beat," which is perhaps from PIE root *bhau-"to strike." Related: Confuted; confuting.