Definition of "confuted" [confuted]

• Simple past tense and past participle of confute. (verb)

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• "I took old Howard along, and he perked up and confuted the doctors, so that it was three years before I buried him restored to the bosom of my family."
• "As for De Casseres -- if ever I get back to New York, equipped as I now am, I shall confute him with the same ease that he has confuted all the schools."
• "While the government then gave the floor to the chief of police Manganelli which in Italian means "batons", the irony of the language, the argument of who is in favour of the project has regularly been confuted for scientific and technical reasons that highlight the weaknesses."