v .
to prove to be false ; to disprove 거짓임을 증명하다 ; 논박하다

• His expensive suit and imported shoes clearly refuted his claim that he was poor.
• I refuted Larry's mathematical proof by showing him that it depended on two and two adding up to five.
• 명사형은 refutation
• The audience enjoyed the panelist's humorous refutation of the main speaker's theory about the possibility of building an antigravity airplane.
  청중들은 주 발표자가 내놓은 반중력 비행기의 제조 가능성에 관한 이론을 익살스럽게 반박하는 토론자의 이야기를 재미있어했다.
• Something that is indubitable, something that cannot be disproven, is irrefutable. Carrie's experiments with jelly beans and pencil erasers offered irrefutable proof that jelly beans taste better than pencil erasers.