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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes they illustrate his thesis; sometimes they confute it.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

But lest some feature of the case may be left untouched, and that the justice of the decree may be more clearly asserted, I have taken the pains to confute these briefly.

From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous