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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

  1. verb To keep away from someone or something, especially something unwanted or harmful.
  2. verb To prevent something from happening, or to stop yourself from doing something.
  3. verb legal: To make a contract or legal act void; to cancel it.
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