Definitions for refutes

refutes re·fute

Spelling: [ri-fyoot]
IPA: /rɪˈfyut/

Refutes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 147 anagrams from letters in refutes (eefrstu).

Definitions for refutes

verb (used with object)

  1. to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge.
  2. to prove (a person) to be in error.

Origin of refutes

1505-15; Latin refūtāre “to check, suppress, refute, rebut,” equivalent to re- re- + -fūtāre presumably, “to beat” (attested only with the prefixes con- and re-; cf.

Examples for refutes

I shall go back and refute that common scoffer, that caster of doubts.

This would seem to refute the new report that the captain alone would have been able to disable all the systems.

Szarkowski responded: “The claim is impossible to refute, and in fact not easy to understand.”

Which is why we need the most up-to-date science—and for government entities to refute “abortion-inducing” misnomers.

And no one is better equipped to refute this false equivalence than Mack herself.

Traditions these which I mean not either to confirm with arguments of my own or to refute.

But this is all ‘a work in progress’… [that] we are trying to confirm or refute.

Unconsciously his whole practice began to refute his theories.

But how can I refute you, if, as you say, to tell a falsehood is impossible?

And his sense of truth did not permit him to try to refute her accusation.

Word Value for refutes
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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