Definition of "confutes" [confutes]

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

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• "That kind of confutes a lot of things we think are supposed to connect between modernization and fertility change."
• "In such intricate circumstances, the nuclear dossier would be the best pretext of pressuring and lobbying to isolate Iran, by disguising that the country is pursuing the mass destruction weapons and atomic bombs - a deceptive and compelling story which intimidates the public opinions and confutes them to shun Iran; otherwise there would not be any subterfuge for picking a quarrel with Tehran."
• "In truth, many laws acquire force by mere custom, not by syllogistic necessity, like the arts: as Aristotle, the Phoebus of the Schools, urges in the second book of the Politics, where he confutes the policy of Hippodamus, which holds out rewards to the inventors of new laws, because to abrogate old laws and establish new ones is to weaken the force of those which exist."