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What does confute mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive, now rare) To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.
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He tells us that his object in studying philosophy was to confute the philosophers.
Accordingly, they confute one another in their own books to purpose, and are not ashamed.
We can confute him, not only by pointing to the books he did not use, but by pointing to those he did.
Moreover, experience tends to confute the system of Dr. Gall.
It was Jane who lied about you, and your return with me will confute her slanders.
He took out a packet of old letters and began turning them over as if in search of one that would confute Terence's suspicions.

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