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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes they illustrate his thesis; sometimes they confute it.

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Now comes the "mediator" trying to keep peace between many power centers and "the Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute."

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The triflers and the dogmatists of the day used Plato's myths to confute the Christian doctrine of the resurrection.

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)