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confute

/kuhn-fyoot/US // kənˈfyut //UK // (kənˈfjuːt) //

忏悔,混淆视听,混淆,迷惑

Related Words

invalidate失效,废止,无效,失效的tap轻拍,敲击,轻敲,敲打overwhelm压倒性的,压倒,压制,压倒一切confound困惑,混淆,混淆视听controvert争议,争论,有争议,有争议的negate否定,否认,否定了,否决subvert颠覆,推翻,转移,翻转disprove否定了,驳斥,推翻,否定overthrow推翻,推翻了,推倒,打倒overcome克服,攻克,战胜,克服困难dismay惊愕,惊恐,惊恐不安,错愕expose揭发,揭露,暴露,揭穿parry辩才,辩解,辩护士,辩证法break突破,休息,断裂,断overturn推翻,推翻了,打翻了,打翻demolish拆毁,拆除,拆迁,拆卸contradict驳斥,抵触,违背,违背了upset心烦意乱,心乱如麻,烦乱,心烦意乱的oppugn反对派,反对,反对者,反对党defeat挫败,打败,失败,挫折

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    con·fut·ed, con·fut·ing.

    • : to prove to be false, invalid, or defective; disprove: to confute an argument.
    • : to prove to be wrong by argument or proof: to confute one's opponent.
    • : Obsolete. to bring to naught; confound.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbdisprove, refute
Synonyms
break突破,休息,断裂,断confound困惑,混淆,混淆视听contradict驳斥,抵触,违背,违背了controvert争议,争论,有争议,有争议的defeat挫败,打败,失败,挫折demolish拆毁,拆除,拆迁,拆卸dismay惊愕,惊恐,惊恐不安,错愕disprove否定了,驳斥,推翻,否定expose揭发,揭露,暴露,揭穿invalidate失效,废止,无效,失效的negate否定,否认,否定了,否决oppugn反对派,反对,反对者,反对党overcome克服,攻克,战胜,克服困难overthrow推翻,推翻了,推倒,打倒overturn推翻,推翻了,打翻了,打翻overwhelm压倒性的,压倒,压制,压倒一切parry辩才,辩解,辩护士,辩证法rebut反驳,驳斥,推翻,抗辩silence沉默,缄默,肃静,沉默寡言subvert颠覆,推翻,转移,翻转tap轻拍,敲击,轻敲,敲打upset心烦意乱,心乱如麻,烦乱,心烦意乱的vanquish征服,战胜,消灭,消除blow sky high轰天响,轰轰烈烈,仰天长啸,轰隆隆bring to naught弄坏,弄垮,弄坏了,弄垮了knocks props out from under敲打道具从下而上,敲打道具从下面出来,敲打道具从下边出来prove false证明是假的,证伪,证明是错误的,证明假的prove wrong证明是错误的,证明是错的,证明错误put down撂倒,放下,撂下,撂倒了set aside拨出,搁置,搁置的,拨开shut up闭上嘴巴,住口,收声,闭上嘴

Examples

  • He recites several passages from the Fathers on this subject, by which he pretends to confute the first reformers.

  • He enumerated the objections which had been made, and the industry with which he had endeavoured to confute them.

  • I had not relied upon time, or the suggestion of his cooler thoughts, to confute his charges.

  • Having enunciated this definition, as one learnt from another person not named, Sokrates proceeds to examine and confute it.

  • To confute intuitionists and get rid of intuitions was one main purpose of all Mill's speculations.

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