Definition of confute in English:

confute

verb kənˈfjuːtkənˈfjut

[with object]formal

Prove (a person or an assertion or accusation) to be wrong.
〈正式〉驳斥，驳倒（人，主张，指控）
restorers who sought to confute this view were accused of ignorance
试图驳斥这种观点的修复者被指责为无知。
Example sentencesExamples
- The ‘fact’ that water freezes more quickly if it is first boiled is no fact at all, and some of Descartes's ‘explanations’ are easily confuted by experiment.
- One well-studied case decisively confutes all the conventional arguments.
- He confutes this argument saying ‘You find valuable things in places were no one else has searched.’
- He has argued to the contrary, but the evidence confutes him.
- Because earlier travel narratives had used this anecdote, later writers felt compelled to include it, not because it was true, but because confuting it might bring one's own veracity into question.
- In the nine articles that have appeared in this series, we have disproved and confuted all the allegations of disbelievers and critics regarding the origin of the Qur'an.
- A second, more common way of settling the problem was to consider the market as a kind of extension of the home, however much this might confute economic and physical fact.
- Our exclusive exit poll of the Democratic primary confutes the conventional wisdom about why Gotham's voters vote as they do.
- The telescopic observations used by Galileo to confute the Aristotelians are bound up with complex assumptions having to do with optics: this penetration of observation by theory is typical.
- No, I intend to confute their arguments, to show that they are mistaken.
- In other words, the consensus has been downright confuted, over a nine-month period, by the course of events.
- He confutes such notions by educating patients about the field of psychoneuroimmunology, with examples of how stress can adversely affect the endocrine, immune and nervous systems.
- The whole of Pakistani history serves to confute these beliefs.
- Now everybody makes a wrong call from time to time - if only because even right calls can be confuted by poor timing.
- Yet, while George confutes the morality of the landowner's original title, he does not regard this as good enough reason, in itself, for overriding the claim of the present incumbent.
- It would be nice to say that the exhibition at the Royal Academy until 18 April confutes received wisdom.
Synonyms
refute, prove false, show to be false, give the lie to, rebut, deny, falsify, debunk, negate, invalidate, contradict, confound, be at odds with, demolish, discredit
disprove, prove to be false, show to be false, contradict, negate, deny, refute, rebut, gainsay, belie, give the lie to, invalidate, explode, discredit, expose, debunk, quash, knock the bottom out of, drive a coach and horses through

Derivatives

confutation

noun kɒnfjʊˈteɪʃ(ə)nˌkɑnfjəˈteɪʃ(ə)n

formal

But his work ‘goes well beyond his confutation of heresy.’
Example sentencesExamples
- Thus he deploys a vivid confutation of justification by works, even by the fervent ‘Sacrifice’ he has described in line 5.
- He quotes without confutation the assertion that ‘the globe may be surveyed and history may be reviewed in vain for any evidence of a considerable country in which want can be fairly attributed to an increasing population.’
- In his Confutation, he erred in citing two pseudonymous patristic texts, supposedly from St. Cyprian and St. Augustine.
- When the child died a few days after, the prophet was abashed, and quite unable to account for this summary confutation.

Origin

Early 16th century: from Latin confutare 'restrain, answer conclusively', from con- 'altogether' + the base of refutare 'refute'.

Rhymes

acute, argute, astute, beaut, Beirut, boot, bruit, brut, brute, Bute, butte, Canute, cheroot, chute, commute, compute, coot, cute, depute, dilute, dispute, flute, galoot, hoot, impute, jute, loot, lute, minute, moot, newt, outshoot, permute, pollute, pursuit, recruit, refute, repute, route, salute, Salyut, scoot, shoot, Shute, sloot, snoot, subacute, suit, telecommute, Tonton Macoute, toot, transmute, undershoot, uproot, Ute, volute

Definition of confute in US English:

confute

verbkənˈfyo͞otkənˈfjut

[with object]formal

Prove (a person or an assertion) to be wrong.
〈正式〉驳斥，驳倒（人，主张，指控）
restorers who sought to confute this view were accused of ignorance
试图驳斥这种观点的修复者被指责为无知。
Example sentencesExamples
- Because earlier travel narratives had used this anecdote, later writers felt compelled to include it, not because it was true, but because confuting it might bring one's own veracity into question.
- No, I intend to confute their arguments, to show that they are mistaken.
- Our exclusive exit poll of the Democratic primary confutes the conventional wisdom about why Gotham's voters vote as they do.
- The ‘fact’ that water freezes more quickly if it is first boiled is no fact at all, and some of Descartes's ‘explanations’ are easily confuted by experiment.
- It would be nice to say that the exhibition at the Royal Academy until 18 April confutes received wisdom.
- Now everybody makes a wrong call from time to time - if only because even right calls can be confuted by poor timing.
- The telescopic observations used by Galileo to confute the Aristotelians are bound up with complex assumptions having to do with optics: this penetration of observation by theory is typical.
- The whole of Pakistani history serves to confute these beliefs.
- One well-studied case decisively confutes all the conventional arguments.
- He has argued to the contrary, but the evidence confutes him.
- In other words, the consensus has been downright confuted, over a nine-month period, by the course of events.
- He confutes such notions by educating patients about the field of psychoneuroimmunology, with examples of how stress can adversely affect the endocrine, immune and nervous systems.
- Yet, while George confutes the morality of the landowner's original title, he does not regard this as good enough reason, in itself, for overriding the claim of the present incumbent.
- He confutes this argument saying ‘You find valuable things in places were no one else has searched.’
- A second, more common way of settling the problem was to consider the market as a kind of extension of the home, however much this might confute economic and physical fact.
- In the nine articles that have appeared in this series, we have disproved and confuted all the allegations of disbelievers and critics regarding the origin of the Qur'an.
Synonyms
refute, prove false, show to be false, give the lie to, rebut, deny, falsify, debunk, negate, invalidate, contradict, confound, be at odds with, demolish, discredit
disprove, prove to be false, show to be false, contradict, negate, deny, refute, rebut, gainsay, belie, give the lie to, invalidate, explode, discredit, expose, debunk, quash, knock the bottom out of, drive a coach and horses through

Origin

Early 16th century: from Latin confutare ‘restrain, answer conclusively’, from con- ‘altogether’ + the base of refutare ‘refute’.

词汇	confute
释义	Definition of confute in English: confute verb kənˈfjuːtkənˈfjut [with object]formal Prove (a person or an assertion or accusation) to be wrong. 〈正式〉驳斥，驳倒（人，主张，指控） restorers who sought to confute this view were accused of ignorance 试图驳斥这种观点的修复者被指责为无知。 Example sentencesExamples The ‘fact’ that water freezes more quickly if it is first boiled is no fact at all, and some of Descartes's ‘explanations’ are easily confuted by experiment. One well-studied case decisively confutes all the conventional arguments. He confutes this argument saying ‘You find valuable things in places were no one else has searched.’ He has argued to the contrary, but the evidence confutes him. Because earlier travel narratives had used this anecdote, later writers felt compelled to include it, not because it was true, but because confuting it might bring one's own veracity into question. In the nine articles that have appeared in this series, we have disproved and confuted all the allegations of disbelievers and critics regarding the origin of the Qur'an. A second, more common way of settling the problem was to consider the market as a kind of extension of the home, however much this might confute economic and physical fact. Our exclusive exit poll of the Democratic primary confutes the conventional wisdom about why Gotham's voters vote as they do. The telescopic observations used by Galileo to confute the Aristotelians are bound up with complex assumptions having to do with optics: this penetration of observation by theory is typical. No, I intend to confute their arguments, to show that they are mistaken. In other words, the consensus has been downright confuted, over a nine-month period, by the course of events. He confutes such notions by educating patients about the field of psychoneuroimmunology, with examples of how stress can adversely affect the endocrine, immune and nervous systems. The whole of Pakistani history serves to confute these beliefs. Now everybody makes a wrong call from time to time - if only because even right calls can be confuted by poor timing. Yet, while George confutes the morality of the landowner's original title, he does not regard this as good enough reason, in itself, for overriding the claim of the present incumbent. It would be nice to say that the exhibition at the Royal Academy until 18 April confutes received wisdom. Synonyms refute, prove false, show to be false, give the lie to, rebut, deny, falsify, debunk, negate, invalidate, contradict, confound, be at odds with, demolish, discredit disprove, prove to be false, show to be false, contradict, negate, deny, refute, rebut, gainsay, belie, give the lie to, invalidate, explode, discredit, expose, debunk, quash, knock the bottom out of, drive a coach and horses through Derivatives confutation noun kɒnfjʊˈteɪʃ(ə)nˌkɑnfjəˈteɪʃ(ə)n formal But his work ‘goes well beyond his confutation of heresy.’ Example sentencesExamples Thus he deploys a vivid confutation of justification by works, even by the fervent ‘Sacrifice’ he has described in line 5. He quotes without confutation the assertion that ‘the globe may be surveyed and history may be reviewed in vain for any evidence of a considerable country in which want can be fairly attributed to an increasing population.’ In his Confutation, he erred in citing two pseudonymous patristic texts, supposedly from St. Cyprian and St. Augustine. When the child died a few days after, the prophet was abashed, and quite unable to account for this summary confutation. Origin Early 16th century: from Latin confutare 'restrain, answer conclusively', from con- 'altogether' + the base of refutare 'refute'. Rhymes acute, argute, astute, beaut, Beirut, boot, bruit, brut, brute, Bute, butte, Canute, cheroot, chute, commute, compute, coot, cute, depute, dilute, dispute, flute, galoot, hoot, impute, jute, loot, lute, minute, moot, newt, outshoot, permute, pollute, pursuit, recruit, refute, repute, route, salute, Salyut, scoot, shoot, Shute, sloot, snoot, subacute, suit, telecommute, Tonton Macoute, toot, transmute, undershoot, uproot, Ute, volute Definition of confute in US English: confute verbkənˈfyo͞otkənˈfjut [with object]formal Prove (a person or an assertion) to be wrong. 〈正式〉驳斥，驳倒（人，主张，指控） restorers who sought to confute this view were accused of ignorance 试图驳斥这种观点的修复者被指责为无知。 Example sentencesExamples Because earlier travel narratives had used this anecdote, later writers felt compelled to include it, not because it was true, but because confuting it might bring one's own veracity into question. No, I intend to confute their arguments, to show that they are mistaken. Our exclusive exit poll of the Democratic primary confutes the conventional wisdom about why Gotham's voters vote as they do. The ‘fact’ that water freezes more quickly if it is first boiled is no fact at all, and some of Descartes's ‘explanations’ are easily confuted by experiment. It would be nice to say that the exhibition at the Royal Academy until 18 April confutes received wisdom. Now everybody makes a wrong call from time to time - if only because even right calls can be confuted by poor timing. The telescopic observations used by Galileo to confute the Aristotelians are bound up with complex assumptions having to do with optics: this penetration of observation by theory is typical. The whole of Pakistani history serves to confute these beliefs. One well-studied case decisively confutes all the conventional arguments. He has argued to the contrary, but the evidence confutes him. In other words, the consensus has been downright confuted, over a nine-month period, by the course of events. He confutes such notions by educating patients about the field of psychoneuroimmunology, with examples of how stress can adversely affect the endocrine, immune and nervous systems. Yet, while George confutes the morality of the landowner's original title, he does not regard this as good enough reason, in itself, for overriding the claim of the present incumbent. He confutes this argument saying ‘You find valuable things in places were no one else has searched.’ A second, more common way of settling the problem was to consider the market as a kind of extension of the home, however much this might confute economic and physical fact. In the nine articles that have appeared in this series, we have disproved and confuted all the allegations of disbelievers and critics regarding the origin of the Qur'an. Synonyms refute, prove false, show to be false, give the lie to, rebut, deny, falsify, debunk, negate, invalidate, contradict, confound, be at odds with, demolish, discredit disprove, prove to be false, show to be false, contradict, negate, deny, refute, rebut, gainsay, belie, give the lie to, invalidate, explode, discredit, expose, debunk, quash, knock the bottom out of, drive a coach and horses through Origin Early 16th century: from Latin confutare ‘restrain, answer conclusively’, from con- ‘altogether’ + the base of refutare ‘refute’.
随便看	econometric econometrical econometrical econometrically econometrically econometrician econometrician econometricians econometrics econometrist econometrist econometrists econometry economic economic adviser economic advisor economical economically economically economical man economical with the truth economic and monetary ... economic and monetary economic and monetary union economic and social co...