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confuting

confuting is the present participle and gerund of confute.

Meaning of confute

Verb

confute (third-person singular simple present confutes, present participle confuting, simple past and past participle confuted)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.
    • Procatalepsis is a forme of speech by which the Orator perceiving aforehand what might be objected against him, and hurt him, doth confute it before it be spoken […].1593, Henry Peacham, The Garden of Eloquence

Questions about confuting

What is confuting the present participle and gerund of?
Confuting is the present participle and gerund of confute.

Words near confuting in the dictionary

  1. confuter
  2. confuters
  3. confutes
  4. confutest
  5. confuteth
  6. confuting
  7. confuzzle
  8. confuzzled
  9. confuzzlement
  10. confuzzles
  11. confuzzling

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