To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof.
To retire; to recoil.
To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.
To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence, or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to refute arguments; to refute testimony; to refute opinions or theories; to refute a disputant.
To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof.
To retire; to recoil.
To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.
To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence, or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to refute arguments; to refute testimony; to refute opinions or theories; to refute a disputant.