Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Disprove"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Disprove \Dis*prove"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disproved}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Disproving}.] [Pref. dis- + prove: cf. OF.
desprover.]
1. To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.
That false supposition I advanced in order to
disprove it. --Atterbury.
2. To disallow; to disapprove of. [Obs.] --Stirling.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
disprove
v : prove to be false; "The physicist disproved his colleagues'
theories" [syn: {confute}] [ant: {prove}]
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