Verb
To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence, or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to refute arguments; to refute testimony; to refute opinions or theories; to refute a disputant.
Source: Webster's dictionarySilence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. Josh Billings
Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased - thus do we refute entropy. Spider Robinson
[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order. Herbert Marcuse
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him. John Selden
One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven. Anton Chekhov
The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has tried to refute it. Creationists simply pretend that the evidence doesn't exist. Jerry Coyne