confute
verb/kənˈfjuːt/
/kənˈfjuːt/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they confute | /kənˈfjuːt/ /kənˈfjuːt/ |
| he / she / it confutes | /kənˈfjuːts/ /kənˈfjuːts/ |
| past simple confuted | /kənˈfjuːtɪd/ /kənˈfjuːtɪd/ |
| past participle confuted | /kənˈfjuːtɪd/ /kənˈfjuːtɪd/ |
| -ing form confuting | /kənˈfjuːtɪŋ/ /kənˈfjuːtɪŋ/ |
- confute somebody/something to prove a person or an argument to be wrongTopics Opinion and argumentc2Word Originearly 16th cent.: from Latin confutare ‘restrain, answer conclusively’, from con- ‘altogether’ + the base of refutare ‘refute’.
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