Definitions for refute

refute re·fute

Spelling: [ri-fyoot]
IPA: /rɪˈfyut/

Refute is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in refute (eefrtu).

Definitions for refute

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 refute

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 refute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unconsciously his whole practice began to refute his theories.

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

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

Word Value for refute
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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