confute

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Healthy, vigorous and solvent, they confute the view that old age, as William Butler Yeats put it, is nothing but a tattered coat upon a stick.

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Sometimes they illustrate his thesis; sometimes they confute it.

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Delighted at this really "safe" issue, the Deputies rose to support or confute Dr. Pinard.

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As head of the Government I wish once and for all to confute this miserable lie.

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I was very much astonished, therefore, to hear Sumner challenge any one in the audience to confute his arguments.

From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis