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Synonyms for disprove

to prove or show to be false

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Synonyms for disprove

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'The respondent failed to present controverting evidence to disprove the alleged unlawful acts of indiscriminate firing.
Briefing the foreign military delegates on the 9M729 cruise missile, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said, aACoeRecent events clearly indicate that certain forces in the United States were not interested in giving us the opportunity to disprove their erroneous or fabricated information, because it would allow closing this question once and for all.aACA[yen]
If he is clean he should face all the charges like I did and disprove them, he added.
It's hard to prove or disprove a theorem, a statement that has been proved on the basis of previously established statements and generally accepted statements.
But the police have told the Echo they had not been able prove, or disprove, it had been hacked.
Michael Pitt plays a young scientist whose big ambition is to disprove the existence of God by documenting the precise process by which the human eye evolved -- the chain of development in simple organism through primates.
If there is somebody from the "Barev Yerevan" bloc ready to disprove it, I invite him to
Bulgarians generally disprove of shale gas research and the controversial ACTA agreement.
He told students at Cardiff University that scientists should be able to prove or disprove the existence of the Higgs boson particle - the so-called god particle - which could hold the key to the origins of the universe.
He counters this by stating there is no evidence to disprove God's existence.
By tracing the pair's movements through the city centre's CCTV systems and camera systems in Penarth, where the robber later stopped to use the victim'scard towithdraw more cash, Det Con McLean was able to retrieve effective pictures of his suspect and to disprove his later alibi that he spent most of the night in a city bar.
Boone Pickens reportedly offered anyone $1 million to disprove his claims about Kerry's experience during the Vietnam War.
Just one proviso: Mark Croft must undergo a lie detector test to disprove the girls' claims.