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Antonyms for confute

Grammar : Verb
Spell : kuh n-fyoot
Phonetic Transcription : kənˈfyut


Definition of confute

Origin :
  • 1520s, from Middle French confuter, from Latin confutare "repress, check; disprove, restrain, silence," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + *futare "to beat," from PIE root *bhau- "to strike, beat" (see batter (v.)). Related: Confuted; confuting.
  • verb disprove, refute
Example sentences :
  • He tells us that his object in studying philosophy was to confute the philosophers.
  • Extract from : « Mystics and Saints of Islam » by Claud Field
  • To refute and to confute are to answer so as to admit of no reply.
  • Extract from : « English Synonyms and Antonyms » by James Champlin Fernald
  • Accordingly, they confute one another in their own books to purpose, and are not ashamed.
  • Extract from : « Against Apion » by Flavius Josephus
  • We can confute him, not only by pointing to the books he did not use, but by pointing to those he did.
  • Extract from : « Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II » by Henry Vaughan
  • It was Jane who lied about you, and your return with me will confute her slanders.
  • Extract from : « Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation and Other Stories » by Bret Harte
  • Moreover, experience tends to confute the system of Dr. Gall.
  • Extract from : « A World of Wonders » by Various
  • They are also in presence of antagonists, ready to entrap and confute them.
  • Extract from : « Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume III (of 4) » by George Grote
  • It was consequently not difficult for his Jewish opponent to confute his arguments.
  • Extract from : « History of the Jews, Vol. IV (of VI) » by Heinrich Graetz
  • This was exactly the case of Secularism which he undertook to confute.
  • Extract from : « English Secularism » by George Jacob Holyoake
  • Confute him with a whip, and, the doubt decided, Punish him with a halter.
  • Extract from : « The Plays of Philip Massinger » by Philip Massinger

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