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to disconfirm
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to prove that a belief or hypothesis is incorrect or false
Transitive: to disconfirm a belief or hypothesis
Grammatical Information
Composition
derived
action verb
regular
present tense
disconfirm
3rd person singular
disconfirms
present participle
disconfirming
past simple
disconfirmed
past participle
disconfirmed
Examples
The experiment disconfirmed the hypothesis proposed by the researchers.
Lexical Tree
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