Synonyms of the word

refute

• v. (transitive) To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.
• v. (transitive) To deny the truth or correctness of (something).

confute

• v. (transitive, now rare) To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.

controvert

• v. (transitive) To dispute or argue using reason.
• v. (intransitive) To be involved or engaged in controversy.

disprove

• v. To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.

rebut

• v. To drive back or beat back; to repulse.
• v. To deny the truth of something, especially by presenting arguments that disprove it.

renounce

• n. (card games) An act of renouncing.
• v. (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender, atsake.
• v. (transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
• v. (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
• v. (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
• v. (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
• v. (intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
• v. (intransitive, card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card…

repudiate

• v. To reject the truth or validity of something; to deny.
• v. To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown.
• v. To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).
• v. (intransitive) To be repudiated.