(v. t.) To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.
(v. t.) To disallow; to disapprove of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tijuana, Mexico, has become a refuge for cancer patients who have been convinced that they may be cured of their terminal illness by unconventional, unproved, and disproved methods offered in the border clinics.
(2) Independent experts warn that rumours and deliberate misinformation about the regime are rife, partly because it is impossible to verify or disprove most stories about the tightly controlled country's elite.
(3) The best way to prove or disprove allegations of rights abuses is to allow independent media to probe the accusations.
(4) In Iran’s eyes, it is being asked by the IAEA to prove a negative, and disprove evidence it says is fabricated.
(5) If Kim has indeed been set aside – and nobody outside Pyongyang really knows – then whoever has taken power is not seeking the limelight,” said John Everard, former UK ambassador to Pyongyang.“The visits to factories and military units that Kim frequently conducted have not been taken over by anyone else; they have simply stopped.” “As a woman in a very male-dominated society, the theory goes, she might be reluctant to push herself forward publicly straight away, preferring instead to bide her time while governing from behind the scenes.” However, Everard says though it is “not impossible” that Kim Yo-jong has stepped up to the leadership, “it is as hard to disprove this theory as it is to find anything to support it”.
(6) The Iraqi government needs to “mock and disprove” Islamic State’s online propaganda more effectively and more quickly Malcolm Turnbull has told an elite audience in Washington, saying he will raise the problem when he meets US president Barack Obama.
(7) These conclusions must be considered tentative, pending other studies to disprove the presence of new molecular species with no change in net charge or size.
(8) Owing to the poor quality of much of this research the claims of the protagonists of these therapies cannot be proved or disproved.
(9) The hypothesis that ara C blocks or reduces further polymerisation after its incorporation into repair patches is disproved by our demonstration that, in permeable cells, the accumulated DNA breaks are ligated very rapidly.
(10) According to the New York Times , he told its reporter Emily Steel that if he did not approve of her resulting article “I’m coming after you with everything I have,” adding: “You can take it as a threat.” The 65-year-old anchor – who earlier dismissed the Mother Jones article as “total bullshit”, “disgusting”, “defamation” and “a piece of garbage” – had promised that the archive tapes would comprehensively disprove the charges against him.
(11) A generalised vasoconstriction, for almost a century believed to be the basis of all types of human hypertension, was disproved by recent haemodynamic studies.
(12) The difficulties of absolutely proving or disproving a protein error in these measurements are discussed, but our data are not consistent with protein being a source of error in measurements of ionized calcium.
(13) Among the many documents disproving that claim were ones relating to a US policy in Iraq set forth in "Frago 242" , which ordered coalition troops not to stop or even investigate torture and other war crimes by the Iraqi forces they were training, but simply to "note" them.
(14) These findings do not support a major role for free radical damage to muscle membranes in the initiation of injury from eccentric exercise, although they do not disprove free radical involvement in the etiology.
(15) These results exclude the possibility that the worm pairs had alternating periods of glycogen synthesis and degradation, and they also disprove the idea that synthesis and degradation occur at two different sites in the bloodstream of the hamster.
(16) This finding disproves the hypothesis that the increase in coital frequency is due to an increase in the proportion of women using oral contraceptives.
(17) The study disproved the hypothesis that exposure to cadmium would lead to an increase in blood pressure and in the prevalence of hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases.
(18) As Michelle Alexander wrote in The New Jim Crow, “The current system of control depends on black exceptionalism; it is not disproved or undermined by it.” The orgy of exceptionalism tales highlighted every Black History Month can undermine seeing the systemic oppressions still facing African Americans.
(19) A hypothesized collision between the H-wave and the antidromic M-wave component is not disproved but it (and the incumbent assumptions about relative afferent and efferent conduction velocities) is shown to be unnecessary.
(20) A retrospective study of the life events reported by 121 pregnant adolescents and 261 controls has disproved the null hypothesis that those 2 groups are 2 random samples from the same population.
Rebuttal
Definition:
(n.) The giving of evidence on the part of a plaintiff to destroy the effect of evidence introduced by the defendant in the same suit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Already much work has been done to re-establish enduring components for Labour's electoral success: clarity of strategy, effective rebuttal, and superior field organisation with our network of community organisers.
(2) "The law states specifically that this provision does not give the suspect the right to have copies of case files," the prosecutors said in their rebuttal.
(3) The cleanliness of Kigali is a pleasing rebuttal to Forbes’ list, which declared in 2007 that the cleanest cities in the world were “largely located in countries noted for their democracy and their industrialisation” and that there are “no top-25 clean cities in South or Central America, Africa and Australia”.
(4) Fiorina’s own rebuttal to the Iran deal may have been lacked any detail but it packed a rhetorical punch.
(5) The format only allows for one-minute responses and a 30-second rebuttal if we are attacked by name, so probably a lot of us will be sitting there hoping we get attacked by name so we can get a little more time,” said Huckabee in an interview on CBS.
(6) If, as looks likely, Carswell wins a byelection on 9 October , Farage will have a neat rebuttal to Cameron’s warning that voting Ukip lets Labour in by the back door.
(7) I did so in part after soliciting and receiving this response to the center’s mock “nutrition label” for the salmon from Ron Stotish, CEO of AquaBounty, on 27 June: Rebuttal of Center for Food Safety AquAdvantage (AAS) Salmon composition label: In the United States, the average height of a student entering the third grade is 45 inches.
(8) These films were a blithe rebuttal of the critic Edward Said’s insight that, in a novel like Mansfield Park, the “English” story necessarily concealed the story, located elsewhere but inextricable from the main narrative, of a West Indian sugar plantation.
(9) The strategy backfired within hours because, with just a few sentences, Miliband gave a truly prime ministerial rebuttal: “Michael Fallon’s a decent man but today I think he has demeaned himself and he’s demeaned his office.
(10) This was not our intention – a fix for this is already under way,” wrote Richard Allan, Facebook’s vice president of policy for Europe in a rebuttal.
(11) He said: "The tone and language of the report is quite shocking, but it was equally a very firm rebuttal from Standard Chartered to say it was acting lawfully and measuring what they think was outside the rules."
(12) But whether the attacks are fair when it comes to Trump or not, Clinton was able to stick them without a strong rebuttal from her opponent.
(13) Yet I have never seen a sustained rebuttal of his argument, because it’s essentially true.
(14) It's a brisk rebuttal of a recent research paper which argued that the fiscal consolidation being imposed on European countries was largely the fault of the "fear and panic that erupted in the financial markets".
(15) The legal concept of "rebuttable presumption" should be used to reconceive the traditional requirement of a uniform standard of care.
(16) That prompted an immediate response from Anderson on Twitter and the mayor issued a more comprehensive rebuttal of Everton’s accusations on Tuesday.
(17) Tory missteps and gaffes go ignored and unpunished, where, in the Alastair Campbell era of rapid rebuttal, they would have been seized on ruthlessly.
(18) She scathingly noted that the state’s rebuttal to Warner’s petition had depended largely on a scientific expert who claimed that midazolam was effective in executions but had cited no studies, but instead appeared to have drawn his information from the website drugs.com .
(19) @StateDept with another rebuttal of #Russian authorities claims.
(20) In his rebuttal, he said that they were the "usual tired obfuscation and generalisation".