inficiates

Verb

inficiate (third-person singular simple present inficiates, present participle inficiating, simple past and past participle inficiated)

1. (transitive, especially non-native speakers' English) To render or demonstrate to be invalid; to invalidate or disprove.
   • This logical contradiction which therefore inficiates the validity of a notion can have two aspects: either the notion reached by our argument is uncertain, that is it is not the only one which may be derived as a conclusion from our syllogism and then we have the aniścita or it is a petitio...1930, G[iuseppe] Tucci, “The Beginning of Buddhist Logic”, in On Some Aspects of the Doctrines of Māitreya [Nātha] and Asanga, Calcutta: Calcutta University Press, page 69

   Synonyms:

   invalidate, disprove