Definition of "refutes" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of refute. (verb)

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• "Crain refutes charges that he sought to keep Mehlman out of print."
• "And for Castro, the name refutes other long-held beliefs that the Stonewall demonstrators were all white gay men."
• "The use of "conspiracy theory" as a derogatory term, as an epithet almost, is something the government propagandists have perfected over the decades and it's a useful tool for eliminating articulate dissent and the use of that term refutes information that might be inconvenient for policy agenda. ""