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disverifying

disverifying is the present participle and gerund of disverify.

Meaning of disverify

Verb

disverify (third-person singular simple present disverifies, present participle disverifying, simple past and past participle disverified)

  1. (transitive) To determine (something) to be false.
    • Again, in the case of sentences that predicate 'true' of some sentence, we never attempt to verify or disverify them by observing the sentence they are about to see whether it has the property of being true.2014, Everett W. Hall, What is Value?: An Essay in Philosophical Analysis
    Synonyms:
    disprove, refute
    Antonyms:
    verify

Questions about disverifying

What is disverifying the present participle and gerund of?
Disverifying is the present participle and gerund of disverify.

Words near disverifying in the dictionary

  1. disverification
  2. disverifications
  3. disverified
  4. disverifies
  5. disverify
  6. disverifying
  7. disvirgin
  8. disvirgins
  9. disvouch
  10. disvouched
  11. disvouches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disverifying (page history and authors); disverify (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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