entkräften — meaning in English
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English meaning
- avoid verb To keep away from someone or something, especially something unwanted or harmful.
- debilitate verb To make someone or something weak.
- eviscerate verb To take out the internal organs of a body.
- invalidate verb To make something no longer legally valid, especially a contract.
- refute verb To prove that a claim or argument is false or wrong.
Senses
entkräften is used for these senses in English:
- avoid (transitive, legal) To defeat or evade; to invalidate.
- debilitate (transitive) To make feeble; to weaken.
- eviscerate (transitive) To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.
- invalidate To make invalid. Especially applied to contract law.
- refute (transitive) To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.
avoid — full definition
- verb To keep away from someone or something, especially something unwanted or harmful.
- verb To prevent something from happening, or to stop yourself from doing something.
- verb legal: To make a contract or legal act void; to cancel it.
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