反駁 — meaning in English
hanbaku
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English meaning
- disprove verb To show that a claim, theory, or belief is false.
- rebut verb To drive back or beat back; to repulse.
- refutation noun An act of refuting or disproving; the disproving of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine or theory by argument or countervailing proof; evidence of falseness.
- refute verb To prove that a claim or argument is false or wrong.
Senses
反駁 is used for these senses in English:
- disprove (transitive) To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.
- rebut To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it.
- refutation An act of refuting or disproving; the disproving of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine or theory by argument or countervailing proof; evidence of falseness.
- refute (transitive) To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.
- refute (transitive, proscribed) To deny the truth or correctness of (something).
rebut — full definition
- verb To drive back or beat back; to repulse.
- verb To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it.